Discover one of Copenhagen’s hidden cultural treasures at the Court Theatre, a more than 250‑year‑old royal theatre beautifully preserved next to Christiansborg’s historic riding grounds. Opened in 1767 as the king’s own stage, it remains Denmark’s oldest functioning theatre building, offering visitors a rare chance to wander freely through a space once filled with royal performances, masquerades and political intrigue. A visit gives you full access to the auditorium, the sloping stage, the balconies and the intimate royal boxes where generations of kings, queens and princes once sat. This setting instantly transports you back to the 18th century. The theatre houses the Theatre Museum, which showcases Danish theatre history through costumes, props, drawings, models and memorabilia. Compact and atmospheric, the museum is easy to explore, making it a perfect stop for visitors wanting a meaningful cultural experiencein a short amount of time.   Located right behind the Danish Parliament on Slotsholmen, the Court Theatre sits in the heart of Danish history and culture. Whether you’re curious about royal stories, theatre heritage or simply want to step into a beautifully preserved Baroque interior, this unique venue offers a memorable and immersive visit.

Welcome to ENIGMA, Denmark’s vibrant hub for communication and media. Born from the old Post & Tele Museum, it now thrives in a historic post office in Østerbro. ENIGMA is a treasure trove of Denmark’s communication history, housing the largest stamp collection and a significant specialist library. It’s a place where past, present, and future converge, offering a journey from the postal service’s inception in 1624 to today’s digital realities. The museum houses four different exhibition and activity areas. Together they depict the Danish communication and media history from the establishment of the postal service in 1624, over mass communication in sound and images, to our time’s digital realities. Past, present, and future under the same roof. The name ENIGMA, a Greek word meaning riddle, reflects the museums mission to help decipher the riddles of everyday communication. The museum even house the world’s oldest ENIGMA machine, a code device from World War II. Exhibition: “AI & YOU”“AI & YOU” is an exhibition about artificial intelligence that explores both the opportunities and dilemmas presented by new technology. Just like earlier technological breakthroughs — such as the telegraph, the telephone, and the internet — AI inspires both hope and concern, raising questions about everything from democracy and privacy to learning and decision‑making. Starting February 3, 2026, the exhibition invites visitors to explore, reflect, and find their own answers to the future of technology

Vivid colours and grand architectural design characterise the museum, which houses the works of the world-famous Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. Thorvaldsens Museum opened on September 18th 1848 and was the first public museum in Denmark. The characteristic building was built to exhibit the extensive works of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. Today the museum looks more or less as it did when it opened over 150 years ago. A tour of the museum reveals a very special opportunity to enjoy world-class art and architecture. The museum houses the work of the world-famous Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Located at Slotsholmen in the heart of Copenhagen the museum is very close to some of the most popular attractions of the city.  Their free audio guide offers visitors a glimpse into the history of the sculptures which represents Roman gods and famous historical personages. Special exhibitions (thorvaldsensmuseum.dk): Thorvaldsen - Works and days An introduction to the famous sculptor. 

Nikolaj Kunsthal presents especially Danish, but also international contemporary art in unique historical surroundings in the middle of Copenhagen.  Nikolaj Kunsthal is located in the former St. Nikolaj Church, Copenhagen’s third oldest church with one of the tallest towers in the city – a unique setting for contemporary art Europe-wide. The beautiful architecture is part of an interaction with changing exhibitions, most recently by Ditte Ejlerskov, Nikoline Liv Andersen, David Lynch, HuskMitNavn, Leonard Cohen and others. Nikolaj Kunsthal focuses on Copenhagen’s contemporary art scene and is preoccupied with art meetings across genres, media and formats. The art centre also regularly presents concerts, performances, guided tours, dinners, talks, etc. Exhibitions (nikolajkunsthal.kk.dk):Alison Knowles: Retrospective 1960–2022 – 24 April 2026 – 26 July 2026The exhibition presents the work of the recently deceased American artist Alison Knowles (1933–2025).“Alison Knowles: Retrospective (1960–2022)” offers a focused insight into six decades of artistic practice, featuring performances, event scores, installations, and works based on sound, text, and everyday materials. Several of her iconic performances will be re-enacted in the historic setting. Knowles’ art invites active audience participation and takes the ordinary and the sensory as its point of departure. The retrospective is both a historical survey and a tribute to her vision of an open, democratic, and living art form.

On the edge of Copenhagen Harbour sits The Black Diamond as a beacon of culture. The Black Diamond is Royal Danish Library's cultural centre in Copenhagen with lots of exhibitions all year round. Storytelling, sensuous experiences and unique objects set the mind in motion when visiting exhibitions in The Black Diamond. With cultural heritage as an inexhaustible reservoir, everything from Søren Kierkegaard to contemporary art is staged, with particular emphasis on literature and photography. Exhibitions 2026: The World around Us - Permanent Exhibition In The Black Diamond's new collection exhibition, we turn our gaze towards the landscape and everything that surrounds us. The exhibition takes us on a journey through the last 200 years of photographic history and focuses on how we have depicted and understood land and city through photography – from the romantic landscape photography of the 19th century to the Industrialisation's enthusiasm for cities and buildings to the climate challenges of today. Treasures in the Royal Danish Library - Permanent Exhibition An exhibition with library's most precious, beautiful, significant, and valuable treasures. From the oldest of manuscripts to the Internet's ever increasing digital cultural heritage. Explore gems from the collections of science, philosophy, cartography, music, and much more – or take a peek into the lives of a number of prominent Danes by reading Søren Kierkegaard's letter to his fiancé, Karen Blixen's own manuscript, or Hans Christian Andersen's diary. Permanent exhibition. Danish Press Photo of the Year – 2026 07.03.26 – 09.08.26Danish Press Photo of the Year presents the dramatic, funny, and memorable moments from 2026 – captured by Danish press photographers. Each year the competition awards the best shots in categories such as News Photo of the Year, Portrait of the Year, Sports Photo of the Year and, last but not least, Press Photographer, and Press Photo of the Year. Jytte Rex - Dreams and Furious Laughter - 20.3.26-09.08.26In Jytte Rex’s art, images, words, and film meet in a weave of connections – between people, times, and media. For more than six decades, she has worked across art forms, creating existentially focused works that revolve around the relationship between humans and the world and between inner and outer life. The photographic medium is a recurring element in Jytte Rex’s practice. She describes it as subjecting photography to a form of vandalism. She breaks with photography’s cool documentarism and creates a connection to other times, to the world's changeability, and to human inner life. Materials and motifs are worked in layers upon layers, generating new layers of meaning and impression. Jytte Rex is part of the feminist avant-garde art of the 1960s and 1970s, and occupies a distinctive position with her poetic and labyrinthine expression. Jytte Rex – The Dream and the Furious Laughter opens up a universe where stories, longings, and sensations merge, and where the works invite us to open our eyes to the mystery of the world.Visit The Old Reading RoomThe atmospheric reading room in the original part of Royal Danish Library on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen is called The Old Reading Room. The reading room has remained virtually original since its inauguration in 1906 and is a true architectural gem. On Sundays, anyone interested can visit the reading room and experience its very special atmosphere. Visit to The Old Reading Room is included in the exhibition ticket and with a Copenhagen Card. Please note that only students and researchers have access to the library Monday to Saturday.  

A must-see museum for all who are curious about the human body, diseases, and health.  Medical Museion is not for delicate souls – diseases and their treatment have always been dramatic. But if you dare to face how the human body has been understood and treated over time - from antiquity to the genomic age - this is the place for you.  Explore the beautiful exhibitions in the historic Royal Academy for Surgeons from 1787. Medical Museion has one of the biggest and richest historical collections of medical artefacts in Europe. The collections contain 150,000 — 250,000 artefacts, depending on what counts as an individual artefact. We also have a large image collection, a document archive, and a historical book collection. Exhibitions: Mind the Gut: Our brain and bowels are under examination in the exhibition Mind the Gut. Through a thought-provoking blend of science, art and history, the exhibition explores the complex connections between our mind and our guts. Brain, gut feelings, identity, bowels, bacteria, microbiomes – all interlinked. Mind the Gut shows how doctors, researchers, patients and artists have tried to understand and treat the complex relation between mind and gut throughout time. An enigma, which has occupied us through millennia and still does through scientific experiments, trendy lifestyle tendencies and fierce debates about health. The body collected: The human body has been collected for medical research and teaching during the last few centuries, and body parts have been prepared, preserved and conserved. The exhibition ‘The Body Collected’ presents for the first time a large selection of historical collections of human remains from the 18th century to now. The oldest specimens come from research collections of fetuses, skeletons, bones, organs, and histological samples. The latest arrivals are biopsies, cells, and DNA, as preserved in biobank freezers. The collections have switched focus as our understanding of health and disease is improved, and as a consequence of technological advances.