Exhibitions

Danish Architecture Center

How can we make space for both people and nature? Danish Architecture Center presents a major exhibition exploring the relationship between architecture, nature, people, and biodiversity – and asks: How can architecture help us create a future where both nature and humans can thrive?

Until May 17

Nikolaj Kunsthal

With the exhibition “Alison Knowles: Retrospective” (1960–2022), Nikolaj Kunsthal presents the first comprehensive tribute to the pioneering American Fluxus artist Alison Knowles (1933–2025). Since the 1960s, Knowles has been a central figure within the international avant-garde, with a diverse artistic practice ranging from small hand-held objects and scores – the so-called ‘event scores’ – to large-scale spatial installations, iconic food performances and Fluxus poetry.

Until July 26

National Museum of Denmark

Land Unknown takes you on expeditions to distant parts of the globe, and into outer space. Join an adventurous journey about survival, knowledge, and the will to carry on – from Niebuhr to Mogensen.

Until March 2029

Museum of Copenhagen

Here the Copenhagen photographer Julie Rønnow’s (1934-) powerful and aesthetically beautiful black-and-white images can be experienced alongside colourful collage installations created by visual artist Julie Boserup (1976-). Visitors are invited to enter a world that unites two women, two generations and two artforms to tell the story of Copenhagen as it once was.

Until August 16

Gammel Strand

Katharina Sieverding (CZ/DE, b. 1941) participated in the landmark exhibition Kvindeudstillingen XX at Charlottenborg in 1975 and, alongside Marina Abramović and Inge Mahn, was one of the major international stars of her time. Here, Gammel Strand present the spectacular video work Life-Death from 1969.

Until August 30

Danish War Museum

With new technology comes new opportunities and risks. Drones seem to be changing the way we conduct warfare. So how do they affect our battlefields, societies, and minds? View it all from the perspective of a drone in the new exhibition Game changer? Drones at War.

Until November 19

National Museum of Denmark

1,000 years after the Vikings, we still try to look into the future. What awaits us after the end of the world, Ragnarok? The Vikings themselves sought answers from a powerful sorceress called the völva.

Until September 1 2027

Nikolaj Kunsthal

In a new exhibition, Noah Holtegaard explores the scapegoat as a symbol and historical mechanism. Rooted in the Old Testament narrative, the exhibition shows how the figure recurs throughout history and still shapes the present.

Until June 7

Gammel Strand

With her iconic works featuring hens, penguins, flowers and bees, Benedikte Bjerre (DK, b. 1987) stands out as a leading talent on the Danish and international art scene. This summer, Gammel Strand presents the artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in Denmark, unfolding across two floors and creating connections between new and existing works.

May 21 – August 30

Danish Architecture Center

From the very first groundbreaking, BLOX has both excited and provoked. BLOX divides the city — but why? This exhibition brings you close to the story of how Bryghuspladsen became BLOX, and how the building has shaped our perception of the harbor, the city, and one another.

Until January 10 2027

National Museum of Denmark

Ever since we invented them, the ways of money have been inscrutable. In the exhibition KA-CHING! the museum asks how and why money has shaped our society and lives for thousands of years. Play the game of golden coins, colorful bills, and digital numbers. Maybe you’ll “win” the million and a dip in the money bath.

Until September 1st 2027

Gammel Strand

Denmark’s most prominent ceramicist was an artist at heart. Ursula Munch-Petersen (DK, 1937–2025) devoted her life to form-making, and her work – ranging from large-scale public commissions to the well-known URSULA tableware – engages with themes such as climate, care, value systems and the fundamental conditions of life. The exhibition at Gammel Strand is the first since the artist’s passing in 2025 and presents new perspectives on the work of this widely cherished ceramicist.

May 21 – August 30

Christiansborg Palace

Stables are an important part of a royal court, and that significance is apparent when you visit the Royal Stables at Christiansborg Palace. Among numerous marble columns, you can meet the white horses of HM The King, where royal steeds have stood since the time of Christian VI. The stable has survived two great fires and is now the only remaining part of the original Christiansborg Palace from 1740. Here you can see the harness museum, the Royal Coach Collection and, of course The King’s horse in the beautiful marble stable.

Thorvaldsens Museum

Thorvaldsens Museum opened on September 18, 1848, as Denmark’s first public museum building. The museum is dedicated to the world-renowned Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Thorvaldsen first and foremost took his subjects from the mythology of antiquity: the goddess of beauty, Venus, the cupbearer of the gods, Ganymede, and the god of love, Cupid, are examples of this. In Denmark too Thorvaldsen was given major commissions. Best known are the sculptures of Christ and the Apostles in the cathedral, the Church of Our Lady, in Copenhagen.

Christiansborg Palace

In the Knights’ Hall at Christiansborg Palace, the walls are adorned with 1000 years of woven Danish history, from the Viking Age to the present day. Explore the rich world of kings, queens, war-time battles, art, celebrities, historic events, animals, plants and much more from the history of Denmark.

National Museum of Denmark

The Arctic is brutal, breathtaking, and bitterly cold. For centuries, the Inuit have read the ice, hunted seals, kept warm in cold water, and illuminated the night sky with portable lamps. Explore the world’s largest collection of stories, inventions, and artifacts from the far north.

Danish Jewish Museum

The Danish Jewish Museum welcomes you to a deeply moving and thought-provoking special exhibition that sheds light on a dark period in the history of Denmark and Europe as a whole. “Flight and Persecution in the 20th century” tells a European story about the flight and persecution of Jews to and from Denmark from the end of the 1800th century up to the present day.

National Museum of Denmark

This exhibition is about life in the Danish colonies. From the snow-covered Greenland to the warm Indian coast. You will meet some of the people who lived in and off the colonies. 34 voices speak of life in a Danish colony. There is the little boy Oly, who is torn from his mother’s embrace, Catharina, who tries to seek justice through the courts against sexual assaults and floggings, Hans Egede’s encounters with the Inuit and Danish traders who must ingratiate themselves with the Rajah in India.

Danish Architecture Center

The exhibition unfolds the history of Danish architecture from the Viking Age to present day and gives you the opportunity to travel into the architecture and understand how absolutely vital it is to our democratic society.

Thorvaldsens Museum

The collection of antiquities is Thorvaldsen’s personal assemblage of artworks and objects from ancient Egypt, classical Greece, Etruria, and the Roman Empire. This collection was an important source of inspiration for Thorvaldsen and offers us unique insight into his universe of motifs.

The collection is located on the 1st floor of the museum.

Danish War Museum

In the exhibition, four different warriors take us on a journey through time and place. Before, during and after battle, we follow a contemporary Danish soldier, a Japanese samurai, a Roman legionnaire and a Sepik warrior from New Guinea on their transformation from human to warrior.

Museum of Copenhagen

Become wiser in the history of Copenhagen: From the first reamins of the town in the late viking age, over construction booms, plaques and fires to the modern city after the fall of the ramparts to present day’s Christiania and new ways of living.

National Museum of Denmark

See the objects that testify to everything that has shaped us. Three exhibitions that convey one Danish history: “Denmark’s Prehistory”, “Denmark’s Middle Ages and Renaissance” and “Danish History 1660-2000”. You start on the tundra in the Stone Age, and we leave you in outer space.

The Theatre Museum at the Court Theatre

Theatre in Time begins with Ludvig Holberg’s comedy The Political Pitcher, which has been a classic in Danish theatre history for generations. Each showcase presents a performance and a glimpse into the history of Danish theatre. Theatre in Time is not an exhibition about the theatre’s canonized classics, but about well-known and lesser-known examples of performances that have had something to say about and for the time in which they were created.

Thorvaldsens Museum

During the more than 40 years that Bertel Thorvaldsen lived and worked in Rome, he built up an extensive collection of casts of famous works from antiquity and the Renaissance.

Thorvaldsen’s collection of casts is located in the museum’s basement level.

Danish Jewish Museum

The exhibition introduces the new communication tools for the future permanent exhibition at the museum. It is a glimpse into the Danish Jewish Museum of the future, which you can help shape through your comments and input. At the same time, it also marks the 400th anniversary of Jewish life in Denmark.