Explorer Hellerup

Powder magazine inside the Kastellet fortress in Copenhagen, among ramparts that are open as a public park.

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

Self-governing community house on Nørrebro, with a bicycle workshop, a library, a café, a kitchen and a sports room, run by its users.

Botanical garden of 10 hectares in central Copenhagen, best known for its complex of historical glasshouses dating from 1874.

The English Church, an Anglican parish church built from 1885 to 1887 by Arthur Blomfield in Gothic Revival style, in a park beside Kastellet and the Gefion Fountain.

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.

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

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

Museum of working life in central Copenhagen, in the assembly hall the labour movement built for itself, with a 1950s flat and a period coffee shop.

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.

Open-air theatre founded in 1982, playing a summer season of Holberg and other classics in the courtyard of the Designmuseum in Copenhagen.

Museum of Danish and international design and craft, in the former Frederiks Hospital, with work by Arne Jacobsen, Kaare Klint and Jacob Jensen.

Roman Catholic cathedral on Bredgade in Copenhagen, parish church and cathedral for all Catholics in Denmark.

Medical history museum and research unit in Copenhagen with collections on the human body and medicine.

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.

Danish frigate in service until 1990, now a museum ship at Holmen in Copenhagen alongside the torpedo boat Sehested and the submarine Sælen.

The Marble Church, an Evangelical Lutheran church with a great rococo dome, at the centre of the Frederiksstaden district west of Amalienborg.

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 immersive art experience of 12 themed rooms on Frederiksborggade near Nørreport, part of the IKONO chain founded in 2020; a visit takes about 45 minutes to an hour.