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The financially troubled Natural History Museum of Denmark is to merge with the Department of Biology starting January. This means another round of layoffs
After budget overruns on the scale of billions of kroner for the Niels Bohr Building and the Maersk Tower, a new major construction task towers up on the horizon. Now the University of Copenhagen's new Natural History Museum of Denmark is to be excavated in the middle of the capital city. Is this at all possible on budget? Yes, says the government’s new building contractor. Perhaps, says a construction researcher.
Plans for a new, expanded Natural History Museum near the Botanical Gardens are ready to move ahead after the selection of Per Aarsleff as the building’s main contractor. If all goes according to schedule, the museum will open its doors in 2020
