Copenhagen Museums & Art Collections

*A Part of the Danish Cultural Heritage*
 
 

 

 

 

 

Museums and Art Galleries in Copenhagen 
 
Museums & Art Galleries in Copenhagen
Meet with the Danish Cultural History through generations
 
Free entry to: The National Gallery - The National Museum - Open Air Museum and Resistance Museum!
 

The Danish National Gallery


The National Gallery - (History)

Free Entry -
All year round!
The Danish National Gallery exhibiting 700 years of Western art cultural history. The collection includes works by Tizian and Mantegna, Rubens and Rembrandt and much more famous painters and other artists. A special collection is present with Danish artists and painters from the Golden Age era.

Website

The National Museum


The National Museum - (History)

Free Entry - All year round!
The National Museum is Denmark’s largest museum of Danish cultural history. The museum's main domicile is a classical 18th century mansion and is the museum for all Denmark, where you can follow the history of the Danes right down to the present day.

Websits


The Open Air Museum


Open Air Museum

Free Entry - All year round!

The Open Air Museum north of Copenhagen is one of the largest and oldest in the world. Spread across 86 acres of land today the museum houses more than 50 farms, mills and houses from the period 1650-1950. The Open Air Museum has free admission and is a must for every tourist!

Website


The Danish Resistance Museum

Danish Resistance Museum
- (History)

Free Entry -
All year round!

The museum tells the story of Danish resistance during Nazi occupation 1940-1945. It springs from an exhibition called Fighting Denmark, arranged by the Resistance Council in the summer of 1945. In 1957 a permanent museum was opened on the present location. The exhibition you see today was inaugurated in 1995.

Website



Copenhagen City Museum


City Museum - (History)

Free Entry - Every Friday

Copenhagen City Museum with
the Søren Kierkegaard collection.

Website



Thorvaldsens Museum


Thorvaldsen Museum
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(History)

Free Entry - Every Wednesday

Bertel Thorvaldsen Sculpture Museum
Danish Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen
(1770-1844) showing his collection
of paintings and sculptures.

Website


Wide collections of sculptures

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek - (History)

Free Entry - Every Sunday

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek with its beautiful sub-tropical Winter Garden and extensive collections of sculptures and paintings surrounded by a museum building created in the fine art of classicism and inaugurated in 1897, is a place of art and culture in Copenhagen.

Website


The Ark - Arken Museum

ARKEN Museum - The Ark

Just twenty kilometres (12 miles) from Copenhagen is ARKEN Museum of Modern Art.

Website

 
More Museums with free Entry all year round
The David Collection - Kroppedal Museum - The Royal Cast Collection (National Gallery)
 
Museums with free Entry - Every Wednesday
Hunting and Forestry Museum - National Museum of Military History - The Royal Danish Arsenal Museum - The Royal Danish Naval Museum - The Post and Tele Museum - The Hirschsprung Museum (Danish Art).

To be continued!

 

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