Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
A museum of Danish humour and satire at Frederiksberg Runddel, formed in 2021 from the Storm P. Museum and the collection of the Morskabsmuseet. The first floor is devoted to the cartoonist Storm P.; the ground floor has changing exhibitions.
Experience and knowledge center showcasing 120 years of diesel engine innovation, featuring Denmark's first diesel engine and the historic B&W2000.
Star-shaped citadel with five bastions, one of the best-preserved fortresses in northern Europe and still in military use, with ramparts open as a park.
Fountain at Nordre Toldbod beside Kastellet, showing the Norse goddess Gefjon driving four oxen as they plough the island of Zealand out of the earth.
Carlsberg's visitor centre in the brewery's original buildings in Copenhagen's Carlsberg district, telling the story of the brewery and its beer.
Denmark's last operational submarine: built in Germany in 1965 for the Norwegian navy and in Danish service from 1990 to 2004, it now stands on the quay at Holmen. One ticket covers it, the fast attack craft Sehested and the frigate Peder Skram.
Museum dedicated to communication and technology history through 400 years of postal, telegraph and media development.
Danish frigate in service until 1990, now a museum ship at Holmen in Copenhagen alongside the torpedo boat Sehested and the submarine Sælen.
Edvard Eriksen's bronze of Hans Christian Andersen's mermaid, 1.25 metres tall, on a rock at the Langelinie promenade since 1913.
A Willemoes-class fast attack craft that served from 1978 to 2000, armed with torpedoes, Harpoon missiles and a 76 mm gun, now shown at Holmen by the museum Skibene på Holmen. One ticket covers it, the submarine Sælen and the frigate Peder Skram.
An 18th-century masting crane at Holmen, built in 1748–51 entirely of wood inside a protective brick shell; it could lift twenty tons by manpower alone. Open with the museum ships of Skibene på Holmen, with a view over Holmen and Copenhagen.
Copenhagen's former water reservoir under Søndermarken in Frederiksberg, built in 1856–59: three underground halls of 4,320 m² where an artist makes a site-specific exhibition each year. Damp and cool all year, from about 4 °C to 16 °C.
Museum of more than 300 years of firefighting in Copenhagen, run by the city's emergency service.
A zoo founded in 1859 beside Frederiksberg Gardens, with an elephant house designed by Norman Foster and a 43-metre observation tower from 1905.
International art centre on Refshaleøen with about 7,000 square metres of exhibition space in a former welding hall, showing large-scale installation, video and performance.
Copenhagen's first purpose-built mosque with a dome and minaret, opened in 2014.
A hands-on science centre in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen, opened in 1991 and reopened in 2017 after a rebuild and extension designed by CEBRA.
A museum for the Danish artist Henry Heerup (1907–93) in Rødovre, showing his paintings, prints, assemblages and granite sculptures; opened in 2000 beside Rødovregaard, the last farm of the old village.
A museum of circus history in Hvidovre, opened in 2001 in the former commandant's building of the Avedøre barracks and built on the collection of the juggler Ølund "Barly" Jacobsen.
An art museum in Charlottenlund, north of Copenhagen, in collector Wilhelm Hansen's country house of 1916–18, with French Impressionists and Danish art of the 19th and early 20th centuries; extended by Zaha Hadid in 2005 and by Snøhetta in 2021.
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