The Prince's Mansion is a palatial Rococo-style mansion located at Frederiksholms Kanal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It used to serve as the official residence of the Crown Prince of Denmark but now houses the National Museum of Denmark.
The building seen from across Frederiksholms Kanal
Krieger's plan of the garden from 1728
An elevation of the print mansion from Lauritz de Thurah's Den Danske Vitruvius published in 1746
The Prince's Mansion in 1757
Frederiksholms Kanal is a canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark, which runs along the south-west side of Slotsholmen, together with Slotsholmskanalen separating the island from Zealand. The name also applies to the continuation of Rådhusstræde which follows the canal for most of its course, first on its south side and for the last stretch, from Prinsens Bro and to the waterfront, on both sides of the canal. Several historic buildings face the canal, ranging in size from Prince's Mansion, now housing National Museum, and Christiansborg's riding grounds to the diminutive Stable Boy's House, part of Civiletatens Materialgård, a former storage facility now used by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts's School of Sculpture.
Frederiksholms Kanal, view from the harbourfront
A scene from Frederiksholms Kanal in 1794, painted by Christian August Lorentzen
The sandbox at Frederiksholms Kanal, watercolour by Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm from 1835
The Storage Keeper's House