Explore Kongens Lyngby
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
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.
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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.
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art museum · Charlottenlund Closed now
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.
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A hands-on science centre in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen, opened in 1991 and reopened in 2017 after a rebuild and extension designed by CEBRA.
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Local museum focused on the history of the Østerbro neighbourhood, with library, photographs, and articles.
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Museum dedicated to communication and technology history through 400 years of postal, telegraph and media development.
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literary meeting place in Nørrebro for established and emerging writers, artists and readers
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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.
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Police museum in Copenhagen featuring Danish law enforcement history, special exhibitions, and educational programs.
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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.
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Copenhagen art museum of 19th-century Danish art, including Golden Age painters and the Skagen painters.
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Denmark's national gallery of art in Copenhagen, with admission free for visitors under 18.
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Artist-run contemporary art exhibition space founded in 1891, located on Oslo Plads in Copenhagen.
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The University of Copenhagen's natural history museum, whose grounds take in the Botanical Garden, the Palm House and the butterfly house.
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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.
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Museum, library and archive of the Royal Life Guards, opened by Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik in January 1978.
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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.
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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.
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The Danish Film Institute is the national agency for Danish film, housing the Cinemateket cinema, library and FILM-X in Copenhagen.
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The Danish Film Institute's cinema on Gothersgade, screening film history and new releases, with a library and a restaurant.
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