Explorer Rungsted

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.

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.

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.

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 open-air museum in Kongens Lyngby, opened in 1897: more than 100 rural buildings from 1650 to 1950, moved from across Denmark, the Faroe Islands and the former Danish lands in Sweden and Schleswig, on about 40 hectares. Part of the National Museum of Denmark.

A 25,000 m² classic-car centre on Kongevejen in Kongens Lyngby with about 300 cars on show, an exhibition on car design and aerodynamics, a workshop and a restaurant.

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

Boat tours on Lyngby Sø, Mølleåen and Bagsværd Sø since the 1890s, from Sorgenfrivej in Kongens Lyngby. The full round trip takes 1 hour 15 minutes, and two of the six boats date from the 19th century. Sails from May to September.

An art museum in Charlottenlund, north of Copenhagen, in collector Wilhelm Hansen's country house of 1916–18, with French Impressionists and Danish art of the 19th and early 20th centuries; extended by Zaha Hadid in 2005 and by Snøhetta in 2021.

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.

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.