More than 90% of cultural items at Danish stock exchange rescued from fire

More than 350 artefacts and paintings were saved from the fire

Artworks saved from the fire.

As fire tore through Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange in mid-April, many people in the Danish capital rushed toward the flames and emerged carrying paintings, sculptures and other important items of Denmark’s cultural heritage.

Seven weeks on and with about half the 17th-century building destroyed, including its dragon-tail spire, Denmark’s culture minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that more than 90% of the building’s cultural objects had been rescued.