Explore Hvidovre

Science centre in Copenhagen about energy and water, with a showroom, a waterfall and a giant toilet, and school programmes.

A museum for the Danish artist Henry Heerup (1907–93) in Rødovre, showing his paintings, prints, assemblages and granite sculptures; opened in 2000 beside Rødovregaard, the last farm of the old village.

A museum of circus history in Hvidovre, opened in 2001 in the former commandant's building of the Avedøre barracks and built on the collection of the juggler Ølund "Barly" Jacobsen.

Carlsberg's visitor centre in the brewery's original buildings in Copenhagen's Carlsberg district, telling the story of the brewery and its beer.

A historic house museum in Frederiksberg, the home where Kamma and Knud Lyne Rahbek hosted Golden Age figures such as Hans Christian Andersen, Adam Oehlenschläger and H.C. Ørsted. Temporarily closed since September 2025 because of mould; its café is open.

Museum of more than 300 years of firefighting in Copenhagen, run by the city's emergency service.

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.

Experience and knowledge center showcasing 120 years of diesel engine innovation, featuring Denmark's first diesel engine and the historic B&W2000.

literary meeting place in Nørrebro for established and emerging writers, artists and readers

Copenhagen art museum holding some 10,000 works spanning about 6,000 years, including ancient sculpture and 19th-century French and Danish art.

Museum of Copenhagen's history, covering 14,000 years of the city's story; ticket also gives access to Thorvaldsen's Museum and Nikolaj Kunsthal.

Police museum in Copenhagen featuring Danish law enforcement history, special exhibitions, and educational programs.

The small public museum that Bishop Friederich Münter set up in the vestibule of the Copenhagen bishop's residence on Nørregade between 1808 and 1830, mostly of antiquities.

Denmark's national museum in Copenhagen, covering 9,000 years of Danish history from the Stone Age through the Vikings to the present day.

A National Museum flat on Frederiksholms Kanal, furnished exactly as a well-off Copenhagen family left it around 1890 and untouched since.

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.

National gallery for Danish architecture featuring exhibitions on Danish architecture, design and urban life spanning 1,000 years.

A museum in the historic Court Theatre on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, presenting Danish theatre history in the theatre operating since 1767.

Royal collection of sculpture, stonework and plaster models, displayed in Christian IV's brewhouse on Slotsholmen.

Museum on Slotsholmen for the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, built between 1838 and 1848 by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll after a public collection raised the money.