Explore Copenhagen

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

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.

Theatre on Nørrebro in Copenhagen where Poul Reichhardt and Poul Bundgaard played before their film careers, now part of the Københavns Teater group.

Non-profit art institution in Copenhagen featuring around eight grand-scale contemporary art exhibitions annually.

Floating theatre on an old barge in Nyhavn, whose own productions are puppet and animation theatre for adults, drawn from classical and philosophical texts.

Chamber music hall at Islands Brygge in Copenhagen, opened in 2005 on Mogens Dahl's own initiative and home to his chamber choir.

Small theatre on Nørrebro in Copenhagen staging contemporary drama, opera and performance work.

Self-governing community house on Nørrebro, with a bicycle workshop, a library, a café, a kitchen and a sports room, run by its users.

Small theatre on Toldbodgade in Copenhagen, with a season of new work and guest productions.

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.

A Baroque church in Christianshavn completed in 1696, known for the spiral spire added in 1752: 400 steps lead to the top, the last 150 winding around the outside of the spire.

The Marble Church, an Evangelical Lutheran church with a great rococo dome, at the centre of the Frederiksstaden district west of Amalienborg.

The Copenhagen house on Øster Voldgade where Jón Sigurðsson, leader of Iceland's independence movement, and his wife Ingibjörg lived from 1852 until 1879.

Purpose-built home for drama at the Royal Danish Theatre, on the inner harbour front, alongside the old stage of 1874 and the opera house of 2004.