The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek consists of four buildings. The architect Vilhelm Dahlerup created the museum’s first wing, which was inaugurated in 1897. It was to house Carl Jacobsen’s collection of Danish and French sculpture.
Dahlerup also drew the museum’s Winter Garden, which opened to the public in 1906, the same year that the architect Hack Kampmann’s building for Carl Jacobsen’s collection of ancient works was inaugurated. Most recently, the museum was enlarged with a new wing in 1996, created by the architect Henning Larsen for the Collection of French Painting.