National Museum of Denmark
Fourteen thousand years of human life — reindeer hunters to twentieth-century Danes — compressed into one building a short walk from Strøget.
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Denmark's largest cultural history museum spans Ice Age prehistory, Viking coins, medieval church art, and an unexpectedly deep pre-Columbian Caribbean collection assembled by geographer Gudmund Hatt over nearly three decades. It also holds Denmark's most varied collection of objects from ancient Greece, Italy, the Near East, and Egypt.
What to look for
- The Hatt Collection: roughly 7,800 catalogue entries of pre-Columbian objects from the Caribbean Islands — one of the largest such holdings in Europe
- Coins running from Viking-age Denmark through ancient Rome and Greece, all in a single numismatics thread
- Artifacts recovered from the 1957 Danish excavation of Tell Shemshara in Iraq
The main building is a short walk from Strøget in central Copenhagen.
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More to see in Copenhagen
- The Little MermaidAt 1.25 metres tall, she is smaller than almost every visitor expects — and that gap between legend and reality is the whole experience.
- Parken StadiumA 38,000-seat national football ground with a retractable roof and a three-Michelin-star restaurant on the eighth floor.
- AmalienborgFour matching palaces share one octagonal courtyard — and the Danish king actually lives in one.
- Tivoli GardensOpen since 1843 on a royal permit granted because, as the founder told the king, people busy having fun don't think about politics.
- Christiansborg PalaceThe only building on Earth where parliament, prime minister, and supreme court share one address — and the king still drops by.
- Rosenborg CastleA 1606 royal summerhouse that ended up storing the crown jewels and standing in as emergency palace twice.