[1] Founded in 1887, the museum has a collection of over 4,000 paintings, including works by the Danish masters Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Christen Købke, Vilhelm Hammershøi and L.A. Ring as well as those of many other notable painters.
[2] The Golden Age of Danish Painting is well represented, in particular with works by Købke, Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, Eckersberg, Wilhelm Marstrand, Johan Lundbye, P. C. Skovgaard and Vilhelm Kyhn.
Danish Naturalism from the end of the 19th century is represented by the masterpieces of L.A. Ring, Theodor Philipsen, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Agnes Slott-Møller and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen.
Representatives of early Modernism and Surrealism include Harald Giersing, Edvard Weie, William Scharff, Karl Isakson, Jais Nielsen, Wilhelm Freddie and Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen.
Painters in the contemporary collection from the 1970s include Kurt Trampedach, Anders Kierkegaard, Hans Christian Rylander, Henrik Ipsen, Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Claus Carstensen, Erik A. Frandsen, Berit Jensen, Søren Dahlgaard and Peter Carlsen.