Explore Copenhagen
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
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Denmark's last operational submarine: built in Germany in 1965 for the Norwegian navy and in Danish service from 1990 to 2004, it now stands on the quay at Holmen. One ticket covers it, the fast attack craft Sehested and the frigate Peder Skram.
Official site
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Museum dedicated to communication and technology history through 400 years of postal, telegraph and media development.
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Danish frigate in service until 1990, now a museum ship at Holmen in Copenhagen alongside the torpedo boat Sehested and the submarine Sælen.
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A Willemoes-class fast attack craft that served from 1978 to 2000, armed with torpedoes, Harpoon missiles and a 76 mm gun, now shown at Holmen by the museum Skibene på Holmen. One ticket covers it, the submarine Sælen and the frigate Peder Skram.
Official site
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Museum of more than 300 years of firefighting in Copenhagen, run by the city's emergency service.
Free entryNo ticket needed
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International art centre on Refshaleøen with about 7,000 square metres of exhibition space in a former welding hall, showing large-scale installation, video and performance.
Free entryNo ticket needed
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Local museum focused on the history of the Østerbro neighbourhood, with library, photographs, and articles.
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Science centre in Copenhagen about energy and water, with a showroom, a waterfall and a giant toilet, and school programmes.
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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.
Official siteTickets available
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A museum for the Danish artist Henry Heerup (1907–93) in Rødovre, showing his paintings, prints, assemblages and granite sculptures; opened in 2000 beside Rødovregaard, the last farm of the old village.
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A museum of circus history in Hvidovre, opened in 2001 in the former commandant's building of the Avedøre barracks and built on the collection of the juggler Ølund "Barly" Jacobsen.
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art museum · Charlottenlund Closed now
An art museum in Charlottenlund, north of Copenhagen, in collector Wilhelm Hansen's country house of 1916–18, with French Impressionists and Danish art of the 19th and early 20th centuries; extended by Zaha Hadid in 2005 and by Snøhetta in 2021.
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A 25,000 m² classic-car centre on Kongevejen in Kongens Lyngby with about 300 cars on show, an exhibition on car design and aerodynamics, a workshop and a restaurant.
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An open-air museum in Kongens Lyngby, opened in 1897: more than 100 rural buildings from 1650 to 1950, moved from across Denmark, the Faroe Islands and the former Danish lands in Sweden and Schleswig, on about 40 hectares. Part of the National Museum of Denmark.
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A museum of contemporary art in Ishøj Beach Park, about 16 minutes by S-train from Copenhagen Central Station, opened in 1996 in a building by Søren Robert Lund and extended in 2008.
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