Top 5 Copenhagen Museums to Visit

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Copenhagen is one of those cities that draws all your attention with its picturesque sceneries, eye-catching landmarks, and fabulous architecture. Featuring exceptional spots, Copenhagen can surprise you with its wide array of museums of international standings. Thus, be sure, this city is an excellent addition to any Denmark tours, hence choose the one you like, and let's find out worth-visiting museums. 

Short History of Copenhagen Museums

Copenhagen museum learning about history has been a passion of many over the ages. Copenhagen is known for its rich history with cobblestone narrow streets, old timbered houses, ancient castles, and palaces.  

However, the best way to learn about their history is to visit its rich museums, some of which can be entered for free with a Copenhagen card. You can experience Denmark’s 100-year history in the city’s museums.

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek – Famous Copenhagen Art Museums

The museum was founded in 1888 and has preserved its authentic beauty to this day. Visiting Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, you have a chance to enjoy great exhibitions. One of them houses a fabulous collection of Egyptian, Etruscan, Roman, and Greek art. You can also delve into contemporary art by visiting the Modern Department. There you can find not only Danish paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries, but also some of the French art. 

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The museum also offers to take a stroll in the Winter Garden, where you can enjoy a cup of coffee at the Cafe Picnic. It's also important to remember that the museum holds various temporary collections. Therefore, even if you've visited this museum before, you won't get bored of revisiting it due to its always-changing collections. 

Ordrupgaard

This museum was once home to Henny and Wilhelm Hansen, the businessman, collector, and later founder of the Ordrupgaard Art Museum. The paintings collection is considered to be one of the best in Scandinavia. Ordrupgaard exhibitions feature works by well-known painters such as Cezanne, Monet, Renoir, and Matisse. Though this exhibition is supposed to be the main one, you can also enjoy the temporary exhibitions held in the modern wing. 

Near the museum, you can also take a stroll in the park to find some of the contemporary artworks on display.  

Designmuseum Danmark

Located in the city's center, the Designmuseum is a time travel portal to Denmark's design history. The museum's main objective is to illustrate design quality and make contemporary consumers more aware and critical of quality. 

Initially, this building served as a hospital, but now you can enjoy the exhibits from the Western world and Asia from the late Middle Ages and up to the present.

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Remarkably, the museum offers temporary exhibitions. Thus it's an exclusive opportunity for you to see rare exhibits. 

The museum also offers a chance to buy Danish industrial designs, ceramics, glass, and fabrics at the shop. And what is more, in summer you can have a meal on the cafe's outdoor terrace. 

Nationalmuseet

Visiting Nationalmuseet is a great way to immerse yourself into the Stone Age, the Viking Age, the Middle Age, or whatever era you like because this museum holds exhibits from all eras you may think of. Hence you can't but delve into those times. 

Even the building itself has an appealing atmosphere of the Age of Enlightenment as it was built in the 18th century. 

The museum boasts impressive permanent collections such as ethnographical, coin, medal, eastern antiquities, and many more. You also can visit one of the Victorian apartments, which has remained unchanged since 1890.  

Medical Museion

Our body has always been a mystery, and medicine is a key that helps us to understand how our body works. Every medical discovery unravels the mystery of our body a little bit more. And Medical Museion is the very place that preserved the history of this long path. Visiting Medical Museion, you'll see how medicine has developed through the past centuries, since in the museum, you can find the equipment and other medical devices used before.

The exhibitions are dedicated not only to the human body but also to diseases we've faced. And one of the newest exhibitions is about coronavirus. 

The David Collection: Touted as the Best Art Museum in Copenhagen

If you asked around for the best Copenhagen art museum to visit during your trip to Copenhagen, most people would probably point you to the direction of the Kronprinsessegade 30, the townhouse housing the David Collection.

The David Collection is the product and vision of original owner CL David’s collection, one that he started collecting in the 1910s and opened to the public in 1945. Now, the collection has been expanded by the foundation running the museum but it still stays true to the essence of the original collection featuring three permanent collections: Islamic Art, European 18th Century Art, and Danish Early Modern Art.

The Islamic Art collection is perhaps the most popular of the three, not only because it is the largest among the three but more so because of the unique art that is not commonly found in museums across Scandinavia. In fact, Collection of Islamic Art in this museum is the largest of its kind in Scandinavia. As many visitors will tell you, skipping the other collections just so you can look at the Islamic artwork at leisure is just the thing to do if you’re pressed for time.

As for those who don’t even have the time to really look around, just passing by the Kronprinsessegade 30 and snapping some photos of the place might prove interesting enough as this beautiful building was actually built in the 1980s. But then again, with the free entrance, you might end up strolling through its halls anyway and taking a really quick art holiday.

Open Air Museum – 30 Minutes from Copenhagen

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When one hears the word museum, often what comes to mind is an enclosed place where artifacts, old artworks and other valuable collections are exhibited. But when you’re visiting Denmark and most especially its capital Copenhagen, visitors have a choice between the traditional museum buildings and an open-air type.

If you’ve explored the capital city’s historical Denmark museums, you also need to visit its open air museum situated in Kongevejen 100, 2800 Kongens, Lyngby. This is one of the world’s largest, oldest, and best museums in Copenhagen of this type which allows people not only to learn about life in Copenhagen in the olden days but also to experience Denmark’s nature at its best. Entrance is free here so you can take an entire day exploring the surroundings.

Established in 1897, the Open Air Museum covering more than 86 acres of land features fully furnished buildings still in their original structure, a factory site, country manor, cottage, water mill and beautiful gardens. The mills situated here date back between 1650 and 1950. In addition, there’s also the countryside part showcasing some animals in more than 50 farms as well as breathtaking landscapes and streams.

One of the highlights in this vast complex is the Brede Works which won the 1999 Europa Nostra prize for its unique restoration works. This is where visitors can find the industrial plant where houses of former factory workers still stand. Other structures here are the eating house now turned into a restaurant, orphanage and nursery garden. The neoclassical mansion of the former factory owner built in 1795 can also be visited on special days.

The Open Air Museum is open during Spring and Summer from Tuesdays to Sundays starting from 10 am to 4 pm until October 18. For the Christmas season, it is open only on December 5 and 6 as well as 12 and 13.

Final Word on Copenhagen Museums

All in all, Copenhagen has something to offer to everyone as it is full of museums where you can lose track of time and spend the whole day wandering through the exhibition rooms. Moreover, museums in Copenhagen Denmark are keeping the world's history of a thousand years. Hence there is no better way to get acquainted with it than visiting museums.

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