The following is a list of museums in Copenhagen, including all of the Region Hovedstaden [1] (best known in English-speaking countries as the Capital Region of Denmark).
| Name | Image | District/place | Municipality | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amalienborg Slotsplads 1 1257 København K | Art, antiquities, historic site | Located in Amalienborg Palace, the royal palace, displays the Chronological Collections of the Glücksburg monarchs | |||
| Design and natural history museum | A combined shop and museum of amber | ||||
| Skovvej 100 2635 Ishøj | Art | A permanent collection of modern art and large changing exhibitions | |||
| Art | Historic cemetery, burial place of many famous people, small museum dedicated to the artist Germin Stilling in former stables | ||||
| Rahbæks Allé 23 1801 Frederiksberg | Historic house | A historic house associated with the Danish Golden Age of the early 19th century | |||
| Aquarium | Aquarium with 4,000,000 water | ||||
| Historic House | A country house built in 1795 today managed by the National Museum as a historic house museum with interiors typical of its time | ||||
| History | Historic site, interactive experience centre | ||||
| Art | Located in a historic building, large exhibition space for modern art | ||||
| Religious | Lutheran church, access to the corkscrew spire | ||||
| Film | National Danish film museum with three auditoriums | ||||
| Art | Located in a complex of abandoned, underground cisterns, hosts a permanent and special exhibitions of glass art | ||||
| History | Exhibitions about the history of Copenhagen | ||||
| Science | All-round zoological garden with Elephant House designed by Sir Norman Foster | ||||
| Design | Changing exhibitions about architecture and urban planning | ||||
| History | Based at the Royal Danish Library in galleries designed by Daniel Libeskind, documenting Jewish history in Denmark | ||||
| Cultural history | Museum dedicated to the maritime history of Denmark located in an underground museum building designed by Bjarke Ingels Group around a former dry dock | ||||
| Danish Museum of Science & Technology | Helsingør | Helsingør | Technology | Dedicated to science and technology, focusing on display of machines and technology, old as well as new, including the recently used Soyuz TMA-12M space capsule. | |
| Art | National collection of art from the 14th century to the present day | ||||
| Cultural history | A former police station from 1883, now a museum dedicated to the history of the Danish Police Fore and crime in Denmark | ||||
| City Centre | Copenhagen | Art, applied arts | Located in two Neo-classical town houses, extensive collection of Islamic Art and Danish and European fine and applied arts | ||
| City Centre | Copenhagen | Art | Contemporary art exhibitions | ||
| Design | Located in the 18th-century Frederick's Hospital, Denmark's national museum for design, both modern and historic | ||||
| Technology | Interactive experience centre with diesel technology as the main theme | ||||
| Technology | Located in a former building of the Tuborg Brewery, science centre with interactive exhibitions, changing exhibitions | ||||
| Historic house | Operated by Ordrupgaard, modernist house designed by Finn Juul with most of its furniture for his own use | ||||
| Photography | Exhibition space dedicated to Danish and International art photography | ||||
| Art. historic site | Located at Frederiksborg Castle, art collection illustrating Danish history combined with historic interiors | ||||
| City Centre | Copenhagen | Historic House | The Victorian Home, a 15-room, late 19th-century bourgeois home is operated as a historic house museum by the National Museum of Denmark | ||
| Local | A former Rococo country house, now hosting the local historic collections for Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality | ||||
| Art | Located in a former country house designed by architect Lauritz de Thurah for his own use, changing art exhibitions | ||||
| Art museum | Biographical museum dedicated to the oeuvre of the artist Henry Heerup | ||||
| Stockholmsgade 20 2100 København Ø | Art | Large collection of Danish 19th- and early 20th-century art with some provenance furniture | |||
| Art | Permanent painting collection and changing exhibitions | ||||
| Art | Dedicated to the works of the artist Jens Ferdinand Willumsen | ||||
| Ship | A decommissioned frigate of the Royal Danish Navy, now open to the public | ||||
| Ship | The last fast attack boat in the Royal Danish Navy | ||||
| Ship | A decommissioned submarine of the Royal Danish Navy, now open to the public | ||||
| Historic house | Museum in Baroque manor house and former royal residence associated with King Frederick VII and Countess Danner, sculpture park | ||||
| Biographical, historic house | Former family home of author Karen Blixen, also exhibiting a collection of her paintings and drawings | ||||
| Art, applied arts, historic site | Permanent and changing art exhibitions, a collection of artefacts from Kastrup Værk | ||||
| Historic site | Historic interiors and artefacts as well as changing exhibitions | ||||
| Astronomy, archaeology, ethnology | National museum of Danish astronomy, also has an archaeological unit, and an ethnological unit specializing in modern society | ||||
| City Centre | Copenhagen | Art | Based in a Rococo town house, changing exhibitions of Danish and International art, mainly contemporary but occasionally historical | ||
| Ship | Defunct lightvessel, now opened to the public | ||||
| Historic house | Operated by National Museum, originally a windmill but transformed into a private home in 1917, intact, interiors | ||||
| Gl. Strandvej 13 3050 Humlebæk | Art | Denmark's most visited museum, large permanent and changing exhibitions and sculpture garden | |||
| Historic house | Palacial residence which formerly served as a royal pavilion of Kronborg Castle | ||||
| History | History of medicine | ||||
| Art | A Colonial Revival-style former country house now playing host to changing exhibitions of art, crafrs, design and architecture | ||||
| History | History of hunting and forestry | ||||
| Cultural history | History of Music | ||||
| History, archeology, ethnology | National collections of archeological finds and historic objects. Ethnological exhibits. | ||||
| Photography | National Danish collections of photographs, changing exhibitions | ||||
| Nature | Includes the Zoological Museum, Geological Museum, Botanical Museum and Central Library, and Botanical Gardens | ||||
| Art, culture | Cultural history of Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands | ||||
| Art | Significant collections of classical antiquities, Danish and European 19th- and 20th-century art, French impressionism particularly well represented | ||||
| Art | Exhibition about everyday life in the Nyboder naval quarters from 1631 to the present day | ||||
| Historic | A collection of more than a hundred rural buildings from around Denmark as well as reconstructed period gardens and old Danish breeds of farm animal | ||||
| Art | Located in a historic in a former country house with an extension by Zaha Hadid, exhibits a significant collection of Danish and French art from the 19th and early 20th century as well as changing exhibitions | ||||
| History | Postal and telecommunications history, stamps, letters, artefacts | ||||
| History | Exhibition about the Danish resistance movement during World War II | ||||
| Cultural history | Museum dedicated to Danish revue, based in a former country house from the late 19th century | ||||
| Art, antiquities, historic building | A Renaissance castle built by King Christian IV, displays the Chronological Collections of the Danish Oldenburg monarchs, including the Danish Crown Regalia | ||||
| Religious | Lutheran cathedral, exhibition about its history with artefacts, models and reconstructions | ||||
| Art, historic site | A 17th-century observatory, changing art and other exhibitions in the attached Library Hall located above Trinity Church | ||||
| Collections of historic weapons and military artefacts | |||||
| Art | Located in an 18th-century former warehouse of the Danish West India Company, comprises more than 2,000 plaster casts of sculptures and reliefs from around the world | ||||
| Military | History and artefacts of the Royal Danish Navy | ||||
| Art | Located in Rosenborg Barracks, history and artefacts of the Royal Life Guards from 1658 to the present day | ||||
| History | The Danish royal family's stables and collection of carriages at Christiansborg Palace | ||||
| Art | Purpose-built museum for works by sculptor Rudolph Tegner, located in an area of protected heatherlands | ||||
| Religious | Located in connection with St. Ansgar's, the Catholic cathedral in Copenhagen, sizable collection of artefacts linked with the church and the Catholic congregation, and Liturgic artefacts | ||||
| Biographical | History of Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter actor and humorist Robert Storm Petersen and collections of his works | ||||
| Theatre Museum | The museum seeks to document the history of professional theater through collections of pictures, letters, costumes, props and models of theater buildings and set designs. | ||||
| Art, biographical | |||||
| Planetarium | Exhibitions about astronomy, an IMAX theatre and a star projector | ||||
| Natural history | 27 glasshouses and more than 13,000 species of plants | ||||
| Copenhagen | Art | Contemporary art gallery | |||
| Maritime, history | Display of recovered remains of Viking ships | ||||
| History | History and artefacts relating to workers in Copenhagen | ||||
| Antiquities, historic site | Displays the remains of an Augustinian monastery | ||||
| Art, history, historic house | Located in a Neoclassical former country house, holds a collection of around 3,000 pictures from the Copenhagen and hosts changing art and historic exhibitions | ||||
Visit Denmark, the national Danish tourist organisation, publishes an annual Attractions List with visitor figures for the fifty most visited attractions in Denmark. According to that, visitor numbers in 2010 for the most visited museums in and around Copenhagen were:[2]
Note: The list from Visit Denmark does not include museum-like parks such as Copenhagen Botanical Garden or Assistens Cemetery.