Explore Copenhagen

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

About 2,200 plaster casts of sculpture from 2500 BC to around 1600, in the West Indian Warehouse on Toldbodgade.

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

A museum of Danish humour and satire at Frederiksberg Runddel, formed in 2021 from the Storm P. Museum and the collection of the Morskabsmuseet. The first floor is devoted to the cartoonist Storm P.; the ground floor has changing exhibitions.

Experience and knowledge center showcasing 120 years of diesel engine innovation, featuring Denmark's first diesel engine and the historic B&W2000.

A historic house museum in Frederiksberg, the home where Kamma and Knud Lyne Rahbek hosted Golden Age figures such as Hans Christian Andersen, Adam Oehlenschläger and H.C. Ørsted. Temporarily closed since September 2025 because of mould; its café is open.

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