Trapholt is the only museum in Denmark, where modern art, applied art, design and furniture design are all in one location. The special exhibitions always offer new, different and stimulating experiences with both Danish and international artists, designers and architects.

The museum has a fine collection of modern pictoral art and a beautiful underground room with a view to an atrium holds many fine examples of the extraordinary and influential Danish tradition of furniture design. Here you will find designs by Danish icons, such as Arne Jacobsen, Børge Mogensen, Hans J. Wegner and Verner Panton.

Arne Jacobsen's Summer House
A visit to the Kubeflex summer house should not be missed. The summer house has been decorated and designed by the leading Danish style architect and designer, Arne Jacobsen, and is the only of its kind in existence today. Inside, you will find interiors consisting of a dining and living room with loads of examples of other objects designed by Arne Jacobsen, such as the fittings line V ola and the serving line Cylinda Line.

The Applied Airt and Design Biennale
The Biennale, which is held every other year, is the largest and only reoccuring exhibition of applied art and design in Denmark. Here the most recent, most creative and most innovative works of the greatest Danish names in the field arre presented. The Biennale is arranged by the museums of Koldinghus and Traphold, in cooperation with the organisation Danske Kunsthåndværkere (Danish Artists of Applied Art). The exhibition shows the wide range of Danish applied art products and reflects the contrasts and variety in this cross field.

In connection with exhibition the Biennale Award of DKK 100,000 is presented to 1-3 artists of applied art or designes, who arre showing one or more especially distinctive works at the exhibition. The award is accompanied by an invitation to a subsequent separate exhibition at the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen.