Humlebæk entdecken

A museum of modern and contemporary art founded in 1958 on the Øresund coast at Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, with a sculpture park that runs down to the sea.

An art museum in Nivå built on Johannes Hage's collection of Italian and Northern European Renaissance art, Dutch Baroque and Danish 19th-century painting, open to the public since 1908. It holds two or three special exhibitions a year.

Local history museum at Espergærde with a working demonstration farm and a department on the fishing hamlets of the Øresund coast.

Ruins of a medieval royal castle in North Zealand, linked to King Valdemar IV and the legend of Valdemar and Tove.

Country house, later a manor and mansion, at Gurre in north Zealand, standing beside the ruin of Gurre Castle.

Technology museum in Helsingør with exhibitions on historical machines and future technological solutions, plus hands-on activities for children.

Rungstedlund, the house on the coast north of Copenhagen where Karen Blixen was born in 1885 and lived most of her life. A museum since 1991, it is kept with her own furniture, and she is buried in the park.

Historic house museum in Helsingør open for events, booked groups, and school holidays.

Local history museum in Helsingør, housed in a former Carmelite convent building beside St. Mary's Church.

Museum of the hundred years when Elsinore's shipyard was the town's largest workplace, in two original workshop buildings beside the old yard gate.

Cultural quarter in Elsinore harbour opened in 2013, joining Kronborg Castle, the Maritime Museum, Kulturværftet and the port itself.

18th-century neoclassical mansion in Helsingør with a landscaped garden, now used for exhibitions.

Cultural centre on the Elsinore waterfront, built into the old shipyard, with the town library, concerts and theatre.

Denmark's maritime museum located underground in Kulturhavn Kronborg, featuring exhibitions on Danish maritime history and ship-related interactive experiences.

University of Copenhagen aquarium of Øresund sea life at Elsinore's north harbour, open since 1973, which also runs sea safaris.

Historic castle and museum in Helsingør, Denmark, part of the National Museum, famous as the setting for Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Landfall light set in one of Kronborg Castle's towers at Elsinore, showing one long and one short flash every six seconds, visible for 22 nautical miles.

A pop-up museum in Vedbæk about the Vedbæk finds: graves of Stone Age hunters who lived beside a fjord here about 7,000 years ago, discovered in 1975 when Vedbæk School was built. It stands where Rudersdal Museums plans a permanent museum.

A Renaissance castle built for Christian IV in the early 1600s on islets in the castle lake at Hillerød, home since 1878 to the Museum of National History.

The little ferry Frederiksborg, crewed by volunteers, has sailed the castle lake in Hillerød since 1952. A round trip of about half an hour calls at Hillerød Torv, the Rose Garden and the Baroque Garden. Sails from mid-April to the October half-term.