Best places: History museums in Copenhagen, Denmark

Fine art museum with antique Mediterranean sculptures, plus 19th-century French & Danish works.

Dutch Renaissance palace & gardens, including a museum housing the crown jewels, with guided tours.

18th-century mansion with collections and exhibitions on Denmark's history, people and culture.

Military history museum in Christian IV's arsenal from early 1600s, with large weaponry collection.

Working culture museum with a 1915 apartment & industrial & labour conditions history exhibitions.

Medical museum in 18th-century royal academy with instruments & exhibits from up to 400 years ago.

👍👍 You could easily miss this attraction in Copenhagen, because it receives little publicity - we only found out about it because it is located near our accommodation, which was a 15 - 20 minute walk from the CBD. Our visit to this museum turned out to be one of the highlights of our stay in Copenhagen...

Contemporary structure with subterranean exhibitions on the Danish resistance movement during WWII.

Elegant mansion housing a museum of the city from its earliest history to its modern-day culture.

Royal-history museum housed in the ornate palace of Christian VIII, with a changing of the guard.

👍👍 Don't miss the opportunity to travel back in time to the Victorian Era. This elegant apartment was owned by a wealthy merchant and was then lived in by his daughters until 1962! Imagine living in this place while people around you are living in the 1960s. Today, the apartment belongs to the Danish N...

👍👍 Paleis Christianborg ligt in het centrum van Kopenhagen en is niet te missen. In het Paleis zijn het Deense parlement, het hooggerechtshof en het kabinet van de minister-president tegenwoordig gevestigd. Het paleis heeft 5 verschillende bezienswaardigheden, waaronder de representatiekamers met Ridde...

👍👍 I celebrated my 60th birthday there, and will soon have a shelter weekend with friends there Really nice place 😉 Watch out for it!!!!!