Explore Copenhagen

Small museum on the history of the Magasin du Nord department store, in Kong Hans' Vingård on Vingårdstræde, with free guided tours.

The botanical collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, part of the University of Copenhagen, beside the Botanical Garden.

Museum, library and archive of the Royal Life Guards, opened by Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik in January 1978.

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.

Museum on Kronprinsessegade built around C. L. David's private collections, with one of the West's finest holdings of Islamic art. Admission is free.

Contemporary art hall in the Charlottenborg palace on Kongens Nytorv, which has staged the annual Spring Exhibition since the nineteenth century.

Museum on Kongens Nytorv with amber antiques and artefacts, including insects trapped in prehistoric resin and one of the largest pieces of amber in the world.

Geology collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, at Øster Voldgade beside the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen.

The University of Copenhagen's natural history museum, whose grounds take in the Botanical Garden, the Palm House and the butterfly house.

A museum presenting items from the 19th-century Danish banking system, including a functional historic bank branch, housed in an 18th-century merchant's house at Christianshavn.

Denmark's national gallery of art in Copenhagen, with admission free for visitors under 18.

Police museum in Copenhagen featuring Danish law enforcement history, special exhibitions, and educational programs.

Copenhagen art museum of 19th-century Danish art, including Golden Age painters and the Skagen painters.

Museum of the Royal Danish Navy in Søkvæsthuset, a former naval hospice above the Christianshavn canal, with ship models going back to the late seventeenth century.

Museum in Christian VIII's Palace at Amalienborg, showing royal study rooms, the Gala Hall and the Fabergé Chamber.

Cultural centre on the Copenhagen harbour front for art from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, with three galleries and those countries' representations.

literary meeting place in Nørrebro for established and emerging writers, artists and readers

Medical history museum and research unit in Copenhagen with collections on the human body and medicine.

Museum of Danish and international design and craft, in the former Frederiks Hospital, with work by Arne Jacobsen, Kaare Klint and Jacob Jensen.

Artist-run contemporary art exhibition space founded in 1891, located on Oslo Plads in Copenhagen.