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Copenhagen Museums and Galleries

Copenhagen Museums and Galleries

Copenhagen · Denmark

5 stops
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow this walk through Copenhagen’s museum and gallery culture, beginning with SMK’s distinctive art collection and continuing to a castle, an interactive museum, and a celebrated museum setting. Along the way, you will see how art and visual experiences are presented in very different kinds of buildings. The route is worth taking for its focused variety, from traditional collections to interactive displays and a contrasting royal setting.

The walk

  1. National Gallery of Art

    National Gallery of Art

    A royal collection transformed into Denmark’s national gallery, with a building history as layered as its art.

  2. Rosenborg Castle

    Rosenborg Castle

    A royal summerhouse turned museum, with Danish crowns, war trophies, and a very serious throne room.

  3. Amalienborg

    Amalienborg

    Four Rococo palaces, one royal square, and a theatre fire that changed Copenhagen

  4. Museum of Illusions Copenhagen

    Museum of Illusions Copenhagen

    Museum of Illusions Copenhagen, a museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

  5. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

    Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

    A brewer’s overflowing collection became Copenhagen’s temple to antiquity, sculpture, and ambitious architecture.

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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