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Unique mechanical, astronomical clock with 12 works from 1955.

The clock is located at City Hall, and it displays local time and true solar time.

Regular tours in Danish, English, and German....

From back in the Middle Ages Danes have been burdened with taxes or other duties to be paid to their king or government. And for just as long they have shown ingenuity and imagination on how to avoid ...

The GL STRAND Art Gallery has had a solid reputation for ground-breaking exhibitions of Danish and international art for the past 180 years. The gallery focuses on predicting future trends and offers ...

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is one of the largest spaces for contemporary art in Europe, presenting an ambitious programme of exhibitions and events with a strong international focus.

Charlottenborg mou...

Designmuseum Danmark offers displays of decorative art, crafts, and industrial designs from the Western world and Asia from the late Middle Ages and up to the present. Earlier, the museum was the firs...

Through a historical review disclosed today's laws and rules about what happens when you die, and what to consider before it happens.

Interment or funeral - what's the difference? A church funeral or...

Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) spent more than 40 years in Rome and was one of the most renowned artists among his contemporaries in Europe. In 1838, he donated his large art collectio...

When visiting the Frigate Peder Skram, the public is offered an insight into the interior of one of the Danish navy's last and also largest warships....

Denmark's National Museum in Copenhagen has exhibitions from the Stone Age, the Viking Age, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Modern Danish History.

The National Museum is located in The Prince’s ...

Workers' Museum in Copenhagen invites you to step into everyday life of the 1950's and taste Rich's infamous wartime coffee substitute or go for a slice of the rich cracker-cake kiksekage so popular i...

Tycho Brahe Planetarium is Denmark's most advanced centre for popularizing astronomy and space research and promoting knowledge on natural science.

All day long you can watch spectacular IMAX films ...

The Royal Cast Collection. More than 4000 years of the history through 2000 plaster casts of the most exquisite masterpieces of Western culture.

They are made in all sizes from temple walls to ivory...

Nyboder was built during the reign of King Christian IV to house the sailors in his navy.

In one of the original single storied houses visitors can get an impression of the humble conditions under wh...

Brønshøj Museum shows the development of a typical suburb from 1870-1950. Plus an exhibition from 1658-1660. Special exhibitions every year....

The Danish Film Institute (DFI) in Copenhagen is open to the public and also an entertainment and edutainment facility, with its cinemas, videotheque, restaurant and café, bookshop and filmmaking stud...

Only 700 meters from the Visitors Centre you find Museum of Copenhagen, housed in one of the beautiful mansions from the 1700's.

Here you can dive into the last 300 years of the Danish capital's his...

The museum is located in the 200-year-old Life Guards Barracks on Rosenborg drill ground which is still the starting point for the guard duty to the Royal Family.

The collection illustrates the deve...

The Royal Danish Arsenal Museum boasts an excellent selection of antique and modern weapons, ranging from beautifully ornamented princely weapons and war trophy firearms to state-of-the-art handguns.
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Since the 1860's Danish children of all ages have played with puppet theatres. The tradition of puppet theatre in this style is an important part of the Danish theatrical heritage.

The museum collec...

Rooms of 18th century playwriter J.H. Wessel. Visits can be arranged by calling +45 33 14 89 23...

The development of the scout-movement especially in Denmark.

Objects, pictures, archives, library and equipment/gear. Special tours can be arranged....

The Theatre Museum is situated in the Old Court Theatre. Its collection describes Danish theatre history from the 1700s to the present day.

In 1767 the building next to Christiansborg Palace's riding...

Exhibition on the development in radioamateurism since 1923 - visits can be arranged....

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is an art museum founded in 1888 by the brewer Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914). The museum contains two main departments of ancient and modern art, offering a unique combination of ar...

The Medical Museion, former Medical History Museum is located in the former Royal Academy of Surgeons from 1787 and presents a variety of topics from the history of medicine: epidemics, x-ray, surgery...

Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen is home to some of Denmark's greatest cultural treasures. The castle was built in 1606-1634 by Christian IV as a pleasure castle. In the basement you will find the Danis...

DieselHouse in Copenhagen is built around a mammoth-sized B&W diesel engine from 1932, which for more than 30 years was the largest diesel engine in the world.

DieselHouse tells, in an authentic envi...

Hirschsprung is an art museum in a class of its own located in Copenhagen. It stands as a unique presentation of Danish art from the 19th and early 20th centuries, spanning the period from the Danish ...

The 17th century tower and observatory Rundetårn, or the round tower, is the oldest functioning observatory in Europe and stars have been watched here since 1642. When Christian IV built the tower, De...

You will find the impressive National Museum of Photography in the basement below the Black Diamond.

The Royal Library has collected an impressive array of photographic materpieces. A careful estima...

As daily users of modern information and communication technology, most of us regard emails and text messages as a natural part of everyday life. But how did we communicate before modern day techonolg...

Strolling through the Danish Music Museum evokes an acute awareness of the rich history of European musical instrument making.

The museum features a comprehensive international collection with partic...

Meet the Amager farmer, the helping hands, and the mistress when people in period dresses make the past come alive.

Farm hands and maids work in the kitchen, the stables, and the vegetable garden. C...

Visit the Museum of Modern Glass Art in Copenhagen, located in the old water cisterns below ground, if you are looking for an experience out of the ordinary.

Two refined glass pyramids mark the entra...

Memorabilia and objects illustrating the special Danish culture surrounding what would be equivalent to music hall, revue theatre or variety shows....

Dedicated solely to Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, the Danish artist, architect, and designer....

Museum with indoor and outdoor performances. Visitors can see displays with falcons, hawks and eagles at a very close distance.

The programme starts punctually at the stated time with a brief intro ...

Regional museum telling the history of Værløse from being a farming society to the industrial society it is today....

The opening exhibition of the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen is a broad presentation of Jewish life in Denmark through 400 years, and is a selection from the museum's own collection.

The top arch...

Travel through time and experience Denmark's animal life from the past to the present.

Take a walk among mammoths, woolly-haired rhinos, steppe bison, and giant deer once native to Denmark.

Ev...

The Oresund Aquarium (Øresundsakvariet) in Elsinore (Helsingør), north of Copenhagen, is a part of The University of Copenhagen's museums and simultaneously a saltwater aquarium.

The Oresund Aquariu...

At the Danish Design Center you find the latest in Danish and international design.
 
The Danish Design Center exhibits a world of design and offers funny, innovative and surprising examples of how de...

The Danish Centre for Architecture features exhibitions on Danish and International architecture with models, sketches and photographs.

The Center has a documentation department with a database of r...

The David Collection in Copenhagen is the largest collection of Islamic art in Scandinavia. Furthermore the collection contains European 18th century fine and applied art, displayed in interiors from ...

Dragør Museum tells the history of Dragør's development. It is about the herring markets of the middle age and the great period of the sailing ships.

The museum consists of Havnemuseet (the maritime ...

During the restoration of Christian VIII's palace – part of Amalienborg palace – in 1994, a museum was installed on the ground floor. This museum is an extension of the Royal Collections at Rosenborg ...

The Ordrupgaard Collections contain one of Northern Europe's finest collections of 19th and 20th century French art, represented by masters such as Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Céz...

Minerals from all over the world, one of the world's best meteorite collections, a piece of the moon brought home by Apollo 17, fossillised animals and plants.

Exhibits featuring the geology of Denm...

When the present Christiansborg Palace was constructed, the National Museum took care to excavate and protect the ruins of the Palace's oldest predecessors, Bishop Absalon's Castle of 1167 and Copenha...

The Royal Danish Naval Museum shows the historic naval model collection, naval artillery, ship decoration, marine paintings, nautical instruments, uniforms, submarine interiors and a children's museum...