Ny Vestergade 11

Ny Vestergade 11 is an 18th-century building located across the street from the main entrance to the National Museum in central Copenhagen, Denmark.

The University of Copenhagen bought the building in 1857 and it was subsequently adapted for use as a new chemical laboratory.

A plaque on the facade commemorates that August Krogh lived in the building when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1920.

[1] The University of Copenhagen acquired the building in 1857 and commissioned Johan Henrik Nebelong to adapt it for its new use as a chemical laboratory.

[2] Professor Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen resided in the first-floor apartment at the time of the 1880 census.

[5] The building was in 1910 used by the university for a new laboratory of animal physiology created specially for August Krogh.

No. 319 seen in a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Copenhagen's West Quarter, 1757
The interior of the professor's residence seen in a drawing by Marie Boje, 1974
The rear wing from 1859