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Exhibitions

More than 25 exhibitions within walking distance—from modern art and Danish history to royal stables and defining architecture—one overview.

Special exhibitions

Maria Wæhrens: The Answer

Nikolaj Kunsthal

In Maria Wæhrens’ exhibition “The Answer”, painting steps out into the space. Monumental canvases hover like walls of fabric, while the exhibition unfolds from a dream of an angel into a sensuous experience in the Upper Gallery.

August 27 to January 10

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Christian Skjødt Hasselstrøm: Meridians

Nikolaj Kunsthal

The Lower Gallery becomes a cosmic listening station as artist and composer Christian Skjødt Hasselstrøm takes over the soaring space. The exhibition unfolds at the intersection of sound, visual art and natural science.

August 27 to January 10

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Platform: Johan Bech Jespersen x Rewild

Nikolaj Kunsthal

Johan Bech Jespersen’s installation consists of upholstered sculptures, sculptural speaker towers assembled from older hi-fi speakers, and a 10-channel sound installation.

August 27 – October 4

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Age of nature

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 September 13

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Land Unknown

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

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WHAT’S THE RUSH?

Museum of Copenhagen

In the exhibition WHAT’S THE RUSH?, photographer Christopher Egeberg “Flip” follows the anonymous graffiti artist SPYO through a Copenhagen undergoing rapid change.

October 1 – February 28

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cities for people

Danish Architecture Center

For more than 25 years, the practice Gehl has worked to develop human-scale cities in urban areas around the world. The exhibition shows how public space and urban design can support life, health, and community when planning begins with people’s everyday lives — before streets are drawn and buildings are built.

From October 5

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The Viking Sorceress

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

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what the blox

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

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Game changer? Drones at War

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

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ka-ching!

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

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Permanent exhibitions

The Royal Stables

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.

Only open in the afternoon, from 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm (last entry at 3.45 pm)
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Bertel Thorvaldsen's sculptures

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.

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Bjørn Nørgaard's tapestries

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.

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Arctic

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.

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Flight and persecution in the 20th century

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.

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Voices from the colonies

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.

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So Danish!

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.

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Thorvaldsen's collection of antiques

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.

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Warrior

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.

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The history of Copenhagen

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.

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History of Denmark on 3 floors

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.

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Theatre in Time through 300 Years

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.

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Thorvaldsen's cast collection

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.

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The gateway to Denmark

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.

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Land Unknown / National Museum of Denmark

Age of Nature / Danish Architecture Center

Credit: Kristina Neel