Explore Copenhagen

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.

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

17th-century canal in central Copenhagen lined with brightly coloured townhouses, cafés and historic wooden ships.

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.

Museum in Christian VIII's Palace at Amalienborg, showing royal study rooms, the Gala Hall and the Fabergé Chamber.

Cultural centre on the Copenhagen harbour front for art from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, with three galleries and those countries' representations.

The Danish royal family's winter residence: four matching palaces around an octagonal square, with the equestrian statue of Frederick V at its centre.

Medical history museum and research unit in Copenhagen with collections on the human body and medicine.

Roman Catholic cathedral on Bredgade in Copenhagen, parish church and cathedral for all Catholics in Denmark.

Museum of Danish and international design and craft, in the former Frederiks Hospital, with work by Arne Jacobsen, Kaare Klint and Jacob Jensen.

Artist-run contemporary art exhibition space founded in 1891, located on Oslo Plads in Copenhagen.

The National Museum's museum of the Danish resistance from 1940 to 1945, in Churchillparken near Kastellet, where the exhibition takes you underground.