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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Cisternerne (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A massive 19th-century reservoir under the city of Copenhagen has been repurposed as a contemporary art cave. We venture inside to learn more about its history, and bask in the incredible acoustics of the space. Visit Cisternerne and Frederiksberg Museerne: https://frederiksbergmuseerne.dk/da/ READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cisternerne

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, I'm a little bit nervous, but in an excited way to see it.

0:09.8

So I think it's best to just walk that way, get down.

0:12.7

Just go in.

0:13.7

Yeah.

0:14.7

Okay.

0:15.7

Let's just put on a bit of light.

0:33.0

It's never really light down here, because as you can see, there is no way of the light

0:37.4

actually entering the space.

0:40.6

It wasn't built for us to be inside it, so it's something different.

0:45.6

So we're completely enclosed underground.

0:50.0

How would you describe this smell?

0:52.0

I'm Sarah Wyman and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

0:57.7

and wondrous places.

0:59.3

Today, I'm standing inside this massive man-made cave under the city of Copenhagen.

1:06.5

It's a sister built in the 1850s to supply the entire growing city of Copenhagen with

1:13.7

fresh water.

1:15.8

But then, in the 1930s, the sister was emptied and closed up, and pretty much everyone forgot

1:22.4

about it.

1:23.4

Until decades later, when a group of artists and curators rediscovered this place and

1:29.1

transformed it into a kind of canvas.

1:33.7

Now every year, a new artist is invited to exhibit their work in this space, and the

1:38.6

space itself becomes part of the artwork.

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