Explore Copenhagen

Captain-guided harbour tours in small solar-powered electric boats, with at most nine guests, from GoBoat's base at Islands Brygge in Copenhagen.

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.

The Royal Danish Theatre's old stage on Kongens Nytorv, opened in 1874 and still the home of the Royal Danish Ballet.

Former power-station turbine hall in central Copenhagen, now used as a theatre and event venue.

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.

Theatre annexed to the Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv, opened in 1931 as a second stage and the first home of Danish radio, named after its box-like stage tower.

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

Church of Denmark parish church in the Christianshavn district of Copenhagen, holding Sunday services and hosting concerts and cultural events.

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.

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.

Family-owned art gallery specializing in CoBrA movement and mid-20th century contemporary art, located in central 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.