23 August 2008 – 11 January 2009
Ruins – fascination and fantasy
This exhibition marks the 200th anniversary of the fire at Koldinghus in 1808, and presents a number of distinguished works – paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints, photographs and much else besides – all of them related in some way or other to the concept of ruins. There are works by e.g. Piranesi, C.W. Eckersberg, Constantin Hansen, Hans.Christian Andersen and Georg Baselitz.
 
10 January 2009 – 1 March 2009
New acquisitions 2008
In the first exhibition of 2009 the museum will continue its tradition of displaying the objects that have been added to the collection in the past year. Here a small selection of  pieces of many different types will be exhibited.
 
14 March 2009 – 10 May 2009
“Neither fish nor fowl”
Silver design by Gitte Bjørn
Gitte Bjørn qualified as a goldsmith, but it was clear from the time that she left the Goldsmiths' College that she wanted to work sculpturally. She is a both a skilled craftsman and an expressive artist. With this exhibition Gitte Bjørn has plunged into another part of the living world, the animal kingdom. Animals of various kinds, whole or in part, are to be found in her paradoxical and humoristic sculpted works.
 
7 May 2009 – 6 September 2009
Fabric for Thought – Sustainable fashion at Koldinghus
Extravagant haute couture made of ecological materials. Ordinary everyday clothing made in factories abroad, where the workers are treated well and paid a reasonable wage. Designer-dresses crocheted using the entrails of old cassette tapes. Read more >>

21 May 2009 – 2 August 2009
Anton Schrøder. A Kolding painter
Anton Schrøder could be called a Kolding painter par excellence. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, but then returned to his home town and stayed there. He painted his town and its inhabitants as a form of declaration of love to his home environment and its people.  Some of his paintings are today displayed in the museums and public offices of the town. But by far the majority are to be found in people's homes in Kolding, where Schrøder is still known and treasured. In this exhibition the museum will endeavour to show a broad range of Anton Schrøder's art.
 
30 May 2009 – 16 August 2009
Danish Silversmiths. The “November 1976” exhibition-group
Danish silversmiths. The “November 1976” exhibition-group comprises a number of the leading designer-silversmiths in Denmark. The original purpose of the group was to breathe new life into Danish silver design, which was about to die out as a craft form.  And the group's work has in fact contributed to ensuring a future for Danish silver. The Koldinghus Museum has made an agreement with the group to hold an exhibition of new works every second year.
 
 
26 September 2009 – 3 January 2010
Peder Rasmussen. “Screwball shapes and crackpot tales”
Peder Rasmussen belongs among the original Danish ceramic artists. With a solid background that directly relates back to Thorvald Bindesbøll's innovative ceramics, Peder Rasmussen has developed his own form, in which the pot has lost its original function as a container but has assumed a form as the basis for pictorial story-telling. The pots are therefore often exactly the same shape; it is the images on the outside, not the shapes of the pots, that are significant. What the canvas is to a painter, the clay is to Peder Rasmussen.
 
1 October 2009 – 15 November 2009
Ernst Petersen. Architect in Kolding 1918-1953
 
10 October 2009 – 22 November 2009
Silversmith of the Year:  Claus Bjerring
The Karl Gustav Hansen Prize, 2009