Explore Copenhagen

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.

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

Denmark's largest privately-run theater, operating since 1994, hosting musicals and cultural events in a restored 1908 building with 1000+ seats.

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.

Bascule bridge across Copenhagen's inner harbour, linking the city centre with Islands Brygge; the present bridge opened in 1954.

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

The Royal Danish Library's waterfront extension on Slotsholmen, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen and opened in 1999. The building is free to enter; the exhibition ticket covers its photography exhibitions and, on Sundays, the Old Reading Room.

Historic church in central Copenhagen, serving as both a parish church and navy chapel since 1619, featuring concerts and cultural events.

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.

A museum of world records on Østergade, part of Strøget, with exhibits such as a figure of the world's tallest man (272 cm), a sports gallery and an interactive game zone. Run by Ripley's, like Ripley's Believe It or Not! on the City Hall Square.

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.

Botanical garden of 10 hectares in central Copenhagen, best known for its complex of historical glasshouses dating from 1874.

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.

17th-century baroque palace on Kongens Nytorv, home of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Kunsthal Charlottenborg exhibition hall.

The great glasshouse of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden, built in cast iron and glass in 1874, with a spiral stair to a walkway among the treetops.

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