Explore Copenhagen

Copenhagen's city hall on Rådhuspladsen, seat of the city council, holding Jens Olsen's World Clock.

A National Museum flat on Frederiksholms Kanal, furnished exactly as a well-off Copenhagen family left it around 1890 and untouched since.

Museum on Slotsholmen for the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, built between 1838 and 1848 by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll after a public collection raised the money.

Planetarium offering shows in its iconic dome, exhibitions on astronomy and space technology, science activities, and a major art installation by Tomás Saraceno.

Guided boat tours of about an hour through Copenhagen's harbour and canals, departing from Nyhavn and Ved Stranden, with live commentary in Danish and English. The company's roots go back to 1904; it has been part of Strömma since 2011.

An immersive art experience of 12 themed rooms on Frederiksborggade near Nørreport, part of the IKONO chain founded in 2020; a visit takes about 45 minutes to an hour.

Exhibition space for Danish and international photographic art, in the Copenhagen Meat Packing District since 2016.

The Danish Film Institute's cinema on Gothersgade, screening film history and new releases, with a library and a restaurant.

Christian IV's Dutch Renaissance castle by the King's Garden, begun in 1606 as a summer house and completed by 1624, now holding the crown jewels.

Theatre on Nørrebro in Copenhagen where Poul Reichhardt and Poul Bundgaard played before their film careers, now part of the Københavns Teater group.

A museum of 20th- and 21st-century art in a listed 1807 warehouse on Toldbodgade, showing exhibitions of artists such as Warhol, Basquiat, Banksy, Haring and Hirst.

The National Museum's museum of the Danish resistance from 1940 to 1945, in Churchillparken near Kastellet, where the exhibition takes you underground.

Carlsberg's visitor centre in the brewery's original buildings in Copenhagen's Carlsberg district, telling the story of the brewery and its beer.

A zoo founded in 1859 beside Frederiksberg Gardens, with an elephant house designed by Norman Foster and a 43-metre observation tower from 1905.

A hands-on science centre in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen, opened in 1991 and reopened in 2017 after a rebuild and extension designed by CEBRA.

Sea fort on an artificial island in the Øresund between Copenhagen and Saltholm, reached by boat, with a restaurant, guided tours and a marina.