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Map 7.

The University mineralogical-geologic Museum.

I t was b uilt 520 feet long, 77 y2 feet wide and with walls 11 feet thick and 39 feet high, to the eaves, and with a roof of lead high enough for three lofts. The lower room was arched over with 2 rooms of vaults with ogives, 17 in each, 20J/, foot high and 10 inches thick in the mantels. These vaults stood the test, when the arsenal burned on F ebruary 12th 1647, w ith­ standing the pressure of the immense falling roof. The lo­ wer p a rt of the building the­ refore is the original built by C hristian IV, with the ex­ ception only, th a t a new pa­ vement has been p u t on the lloor and other windows have replaced the old ones. In the arsenal is arra n g e d :

famous Greenland botanical researches, the m ining collec­ tion, the mineral collection and the Greenland collection. In the museum are placed marble busts of G. Forchham- mer and Japetu s Steenstrup. Admission free. Open Sunday 10-12, Wednesday 9-7 (From April to October generally free lectu res: Closed on high holidays). The Copenhagen Arsenal was built by C hristian IV in 1598 —1604 along the Southern si­ de of the m ilitary port, he had made between the »Proviant- gaarden« towards the North, the »Bagerjbygningen« to­ ward the E ast and the old arsenal built by C hristian 111 towards the West.

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