Hvidovre entdecken

17th-century round tower and observatory in central Copenhagen, open to visitors as a landmark and exhibition venue.

Museum covering 500 years of military history through exhibitions on Danish naval forces, warriors, and modern warfare.

The Danish Jewish Museum is a state-recognised cultural-history museum in Copenhagen presenting 400 years of Danish Jewish history in a building designed by Daniel Libeskind.

Museum, library and archive of the Royal Life Guards, opened by Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik in January 1978.

Contemporary art hall in Copenhagen presenting mainly Danish but also international art, housed in the former St. Nicholas Church.

The Danish Film Institute is the national agency for Danish film, housing the Cinemateket cinema, library and FILM-X in Copenhagen.

The Danish Film Institute's cinema on Gothersgade, screening film history and new releases, with a library and a restaurant.

A museum of contemporary art in Ishøj Beach Park, about 16 minutes by S-train from Copenhagen Central Station, opened in 1996 in a building by Søren Robert Lund and extended in 2008.

Christian IV's Dutch Renaissance castle by the King's Garden, begun in 1606 as a summer house and completed by 1624, now holding the crown jewels.

The University of Copenhagen's natural history museum, whose grounds take in the Botanical Garden, the Palm House and the butterfly house.

Small museum on the history of the Magasin du Nord department store, in Kong Hans' Vingård on Vingårdstræde, with free guided tours.

Museum on Kronprinsessegade built around C. L. David's private collections, with one of the West's finest holdings of Islamic art. Admission is free.

Copenhagen art museum of 19th-century Danish art, including Golden Age painters and the Skagen painters.

Denmark's national gallery of art in Copenhagen, with admission free for visitors under 18.

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.

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.

Contemporary art hall in the Charlottenborg palace on Kongens Nytorv, which has staged the annual Spring Exhibition since the nineteenth century.

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.

Museum dedicated to communication and technology history through 400 years of postal, telegraph and media development.

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