The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

162 DENMARK of a future Danish industrial art museum. Mr. Carl Jacobsen, the founder of the famous »New Carlsberg Glyptotheca« a unique collection of modern sculptures, is the son of the brewer the late Mr. J. C. Jacobsen, mentioned above (p. 149). The building of the Danish Industrial Art Museum shown here is about to be erected, and it is expected that the Museum, which is supported by the State and the city of Copenhagen, will be in full activity within the next few years. As is seen from what has been stated here the Copen- hagen Industrial Union is a well merited veteran in the ser- vice of industry. Having several.times been in charge of Denmark’s representation at international expositions it was only natural that this Union should feel concerned in the representation of Denmark at the Chicago exposition, that the Government should intrust to its care the public grant voted by Parliament for the purpose, and that its President should become president to the Royal Danish Commission for Denmark’s representation at the World’s Columbian Ex- position. This year, as nine-hundred years ago, Northern ships are setting out for the coasts of America, but they do not appear manned by warlike vikings, ready to fight at the sounds of the lurs. Their expedition is equipped for the great meeting of peace to which Chicago has convoked all nations in commemo- ration of the discovery of America four hundred years ago by Columbus. Under great festivities the New World is going to compare the multitude of its productions, fruits of its rich sources of wealth and the never resting energy of its inhabitants, with the corresponding productions of the Old World, results of its deeper culture and surer experiences. All the world will muster at the important contest of peace,