The National Museum of Denmark is a museum of the rank and order of the British Museum, seeing a nation in world context. It celebrated the 200 years anniversary in 2007, tracing its roots back to C.J. Thomsen's famous collection on Danish prehistory - the Stone, the Bronze, and the Iron Age, as they were coined: A chronological and cultural model which carried prehistory everywhere into the age of science. T. B. Jakobsen traces this development in great detail and with a high degree of accuracy until 1848, at the dawn of democracy. No other main European museum is documented to such degree. In fact, the book is a study into a highly important aspect of the Danish "Golden Age" of the days of Søren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen. The supplementary very comprehensive minutes hold all information on collection, excavation, conservation, exhibition, economics, studies and visitors.