Explore Copenhagen

Museum of Copenhagen's history, covering 14,000 years of the city's story; ticket also gives access to Thorvaldsen's Museum and Nikolaj Kunsthal.

The small public museum that Bishop Friederich Münter set up in the vestibule of the Copenhagen bishop's residence on Nørregade between 1808 and 1830, mostly of antiquities.

Denmark's national museum in Copenhagen, covering 9,000 years of Danish history from the Stone Age through the Vikings to the present day.

Copenhagen art museum holding some 10,000 works spanning about 6,000 years, including ancient sculpture and 19th-century French and Danish art.

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.

A museum in the historic Court Theatre on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, presenting Danish theatre history in the theatre operating since 1767.

17th-century round tower and observatory in central Copenhagen, open to visitors as a landmark and exhibition venue.

Museum covering 500 years of military history through exhibitions on Danish naval forces, warriors, and modern warfare.

Royal collection of sculpture, stonework and plaster models, displayed in Christian IV's brewhouse on Slotsholmen.

National gallery for Danish architecture featuring exhibitions on Danish architecture, design and urban life spanning 1,000 years.

Contemporary art hall in Copenhagen presenting mainly Danish but also international art, housed in the former St. Nicholas Church.

The Danish Jewish Museum is a state-recognised cultural-history museum in Copenhagen presenting 400 years of Danish Jewish history in a building designed by Daniel Libeskind.

Museum of working life in central Copenhagen, in the assembly hall the labour movement built for itself, with a 1950s flat and a period coffee shop.

The Danish Film Institute is the national agency for Danish film, housing the Cinemateket cinema, library and FILM-X in Copenhagen.

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

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

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.