Ordrupgaard is one of the finest small art museums in northern Europe, and the least trumpeted. Housed in a late 19th-century manor house in Charlottenlund, it holds a collection built around French Impressionism and Danish Golden Age painting — Gauguin, Manet, Degas, Sisley, and Morisot on one side; Hammershøi, Købke, and Lundbye on the other. The pairing is unusual and it works: the grey Danish light that Hammershøi painted indoors is the same light that falls through the museum windows.
In 2005 Zaha Hadid added a new wing: a low, fluid form in black concrete and glass that slides into the landscape rather than dominating it. It remains one of the best examples of her work anywhere, and worth visiting independently of the collection. The museum also maintains the nearby Finn Juhl House — the Danish modernist designer's home, preserved intact and open by appointment.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday; closed Mondays. Entry is around 160 DKK for adults. From Ordrup S-tog station it's a 10-minute walk through residential streets; from Klampenborg it's an easy cycle through the park.