Explore Copenhagen

Concert hall designed by Jean Nouvel in the DR Byen complex in Ørestad, home to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's choirs and orchestras.

A historic house museum in Frederiksberg, the home where Kamma and Knud Lyne Rahbek hosted Golden Age figures such as Hans Christian Andersen, Adam Oehlenschläger and H.C. Ørsted. Temporarily closed since September 2025 because of mould; its café is open.

Centre for dance and choreography in Carlsberg Byen, in a listed building of 4,600 square metres, with performances and training.

Former lighthouse in the Carlsberg district of Copenhagen, also called the Lime Tower after the limestone it is built from.

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.

Sports and culture house on Holmbladsgade on Amager, opened in 2006 to a design by Dorte Mandrup, with courts, classes, flea markets and events.

Arts and crafts centre on Amager with a workshop where designers, architects and craftsmen work side by side, an exhibition space upstairs and a shop.

A zoo founded in 1859 beside Frederiksberg Gardens, with an elephant house designed by Norman Foster and a 43-metre observation tower from 1905.

Concert venue on Øresundsvej on Amager, part of the Amager Kulturpunkt cultural centre.

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.

Local museum focused on the history of the Østerbro neighbourhood, with library, photographs, and articles.