Welcome the National Museum of Denmark to The Commons!

Bike with a side car (Between 1940 and 1945)

Chief from the Yanonghe, Lokele tribe. Congo, 1937. Japanese girl with an umbrella and a child in a baby carrier Sales man with barrow and women with prams. Near Århus Station

Cyclists at Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen (1940-45)

Queue outside the cigarette shop at Bakken (amusement park) in Klampenborg. Summer 1945. Flags at the central square in Copenhagen. After 5th May 1945.

Bomb crater at Njalsgade in Copenhagen after the RAF attack on B&W

We are happy to announce that The National Museum of Denmark joined The Commons on Flickr today. The National Museum is many museums in one: It is Denmark’s largest museum of cultural history and includes the Open Air Museum, the Museum of Danish Resistance, Royal Jelling and 9 other museums.

The museum’s photographs come from all over the world, and cover many periods. In the museum’s photostream you can explore beautiful photos from Japan taken between 1860 and 1910, occupied Denmark during World War II, and documentary photos of Africa and the Virgin Islands (then called the Danish West Indies) with much more content to come.

Help make the photographs you enjoy more discoverable by adding tags and leaving comments. Your contributions and knowledge make these photos even richer. You can check out the whole selection in their sets, and we hope you enjoy this collection as much as we do.

Photos from The National Museum of Denmark.

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Kay Kremerskothen

Kay is a Community Manager for Flickr and passionate about extraordinary photography. As an editor on Flickr Blog he loves to showcase the beauty and diversity of Flickr in his posts. When he's not blogging or making Flickr more awesome (in front of and behind the scenes), you can find him taking pictures with his beloved Nikon and iPhone, listening to Hans Zimmer's music or playing board games. | On Flickr you can find him at https://flic.kr/quicksilver