M/S Maritime Museum in Elsinore is one of the most talked about museums in recent years. It has been named ‘A cutting-edge cultural venue’ by New York Times and ‘One of the eight greatest new museums’ by BBC. A sensory experience awaits with stunning architecture and modern, interactive exhibitions. From a distance it is almost invisible, but below sealevel - in the middle of the newly renovated Culture Harbour and next door to Kronborg Castle - lies the Danish Maritime Museum, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark. If you follow the sloping bridges into the old dry dock, you will experience one of the most spectacular new buildings in Denmark of the recent years.M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark tells the story of Denmark as one of the world's leading maritime nations in an evocative and dramatic way. The setting is innovative and created by the award-winning design studio BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group. Eight different themes You can experience the story of Denmark as one of the world's leading maritime nations through eight different themes. You can look forward to the museum's rich maritime collection on display in an evocative and dramatic staging with major film projections and soundscapes. At the museum, you can get lost in films, objects and texts for hours – or you can walk through the exhibitions in 20 minutes and still get a glimpse of shipping's past and present, its structures and elements. Many people see maritime history as a niche, but we try to open up history and tell stories of love, death, courage, science and drama Experience seafaring up close in the 400 m2 maritime play universe ‘THE DREAM SHIP’ which encourage play, adventure and stories amongst children, parents and grandparents. ‘THE DREAM SHIP’ is supported by the Nordea Foundation and the Lauritzen Foundation. You can, among other things, come face to face with a torpedo, get an old sailor tattoo and see the world's largest model of a container ship. Furthermore, the M/S Café offers lunch, hot and cold beverages and a selection of cakes. The museum shop M/S Cargo sells a wide variety of books, clothes, applied arts and toys related to the maritime world. Special Exhibition: Enigmas from the Baltic Sea - Echoes from the Deep, 15.11.24 - 31.08.26The Baltic Sea holds more than 100,000 sunken ships—remarkably well-preserved wrecks that rest like time capsules on the seafloor. The new exhibition “Enigmas from the Baltic Sea - Echoes from the Deep” invites you into this silent underwater museum, where divers’ discoveries, historical artifacts, and artistic interpretations bring hidden stories to life. Explore treasures from the Danish warship Gribshunden and be captivated by artworks inspired by the depths and secrets of the sea. SOS - The Rescue, 10/10-2025 - 31/08-2026This new exhibition about the largest civilian rescue operation at sea, in the history of the world, tells the story of the dramatic days in 1975, when a Danish cargo ship rescued 3,628 Vietnamese refugees in distress at sea.

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

  See, listen, and dance your way through seven decades of pop, rock, and youth culture in the Rock Museum’s critically acclaimed exhibition. The Rock Museum in Roskilde tells the story of rock and popular music in Denmark from the 1950s to today. Through sound, images, objects, and interactive experiences, you can explore the development of music and its significance for society, youth life, and culture. The exhibition makes room for both major stars, wild fans, small stages, and the moments when music pushed boundaries. The Rock Museum is a place for everyone who is curious about the music that has shaped all of us and the world around us.    

What did the very first cars look like? How about the history of the telephone - from the first of its kind to the smartphones we all know today? And what does a space capsule look like? Come and learn more about the fantastic and breakthrough technical inventions and the people behind them. The museum has an impressive collection of steam engines, electrical inventions, bicycles, cars and aeroplanes. There is also a pewter workshop from the 1920s and fire and life-saving station from around 1960. The Danish Museum of Science and Technology invites you on a journey where bridges will be built between you and Denmark’s technological history. Our unique collection of cars represents the Danish history of motor vehicles. For instance, you can experience the Hammel Car from 1888, the first automobile of the Royal Danish Family and a Volkswagen Beetle from 1948. The museum also houses a large collection of planes. There are old propeller planes, helicopters, gliders, private aircraft, passenger planes and many former planes from the Danish Defence Command. The Danish Museum of Science and Technology is for the whole family. From the first exciting fascination of machines to the critical contemporary views of everyday technology to the nerdy insight into mechanics and function. At the museum, the objects form the basis of the stories and we will look at the first technical inventions, today’s technology and what the future may bring. The Danish Museum of Science & Technology is more than 100 years old and some of the museum objects are even older – from extremely heavy and big computers the size of an elephant to small, pocket-sized smartphones. The world of technology is constantly developing, and we can only try to guess what future robotic vacuum cleaners, virtual reality, and cars will look like.  

The Open Air Museum (Frilandsmuseet) is one of the oldest and largest open-air museums in the world. Here you can experience farms, cottages, and mills from Denmark, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands. Each building has been carefully dismantled, moved and reassembled in beautiful natural surroundings.  Spread across 86 acres of land, the Open Air museum houses more than 50 farms, mills, and rural buildings from the period 1650-1940, and gives you a chance to step back into old Denmark, as it was in the past. At the Open-Air Museum, you can step back in time and walk through fully furnished homes, meet adorable farm animals and talk to the museum peasants about life in the olden days. The museum provides a fully interactive experience. Meet the volunteers who operate the old wooden windmill, gather at the village pond where, in a small Funen house, women bake bread and arrange wool, or find out all about the manor’s beekeeping traditions from the beekeeper’s guild. There's plenty to get involved with as you discover the past come to life.  Country life as it wasThe buildings were re-erected with gardens and surrounding landscape to give visitors an impression of the history and environments of the country life as it was. Historic houses, open-air theatre, livestock and a petting zoo, old-fashioned food and grocery sales from the cooperative market in the railway town all stand ready to be explored. The buildings have been restored exactly as they appeared when farmers, craftsmen and the distinguished people of the estate inhabited the buildings.  Virtually every region in Denmark and the Faroe Islands, as well as the former Danish provinces of southern Sweden and northern Germany, is represented at the Open Air Museum so you can travel the length and breadth of Denmark in a single afternoon - just an easy train ride from Copenhagen city center. The museum also boasts 25 historic gardens with flowers, fruit trees and utility plants showing different practices throughout time, as well as three beautiful old windmills and several watermills.Activities Throughout the year the Open Air Museum is full of fun and hands-on activities for the entire family. During the opening season the museum puts on activities that include everything from the fictional character Freddy Frogface's Festival to cozy garden days. The museum also puts on seasonal events and drama productions, and has an intriguing murder mystery from 1865 that you, as a visitor, are asked to solve.  Changes in programming and visitor guidelines may occur. Please check their website to see the opening hours and programming.  Transport Take the S-train line E to Sorgenfri and a 10 minute walk to the museum. Bus 184 and 194 stops at the main entrance, Kongevejen 100. The Jægersborg-Nærum train stops in Brede near The Open Air Museums north entrance.

Peder Skram was in service of the Royal Danish Navy from 1966-1988. Peder Skram was the first large warship in the world to use a combination of gas turbines and diesel engines for propulsion. It could reach a speed of approximately 30 knots (55 km or 34 mph) using gas turbines. In case of war, the frigate was a heavily armed flagship in the defense of the Baltic coast of Germany and the Danish islands against a naval invasion from the Warsaw Pact. The coordination of Operation Hurricane, large-scale air raids, and missile attacks on hostile landing forces, was to be coordinated from the combat information center of Peder Skram. Onboard the frigate you can experience the life of Danish naval personnel during the Cold War. You can witness how the 200 crew members of a navy flagship lived and worked every day. You can visit different stations: the combat information center, engine room, galley, bridge and even the gun turret.