Explorer Copenhague

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.