Danish museums and castles: Louisiana, ARoS, Kronborg and more to visit
Much of what visitors travel to see in Denmark was gathered by private collectors and kings. The brewer Carl Jacobsen gave his sculpture collection to the state and the city of Copenhagen in 1888, and it became the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Knud W. Jensen opened the Louisiana on the Øresund coast north of Copenhagen in 1958. Five Viking ships raised from Roskilde Fjord in 1962 fill the Viking Ship Museum, and Kronborg at Helsingør, the Elsinore of Shakespeare's Hamlet, has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2000.
Art
The Danish art museums people travel for, from modern art on the Øresund coast to ancient sculpture in Copenhagen.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art A museum of modern and contemporary art on the Øresund coast north of Copenhagen, with a sculpture park facing the sea.
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum The art museum of Aarhus, in a ten-storey building crowned by Olafur Eliasson's rainbow-coloured glass walkway.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek A Copenhagen museum of ancient and modern sculpture and French and Danish painting, built on the collection of the brewer Carl Jacobsen.
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark Denmark's national gallery in Copenhagen, with European art from the 14th century to today and the largest collection of the Danish Golden Age.
Ordrupgaard An art museum in a country house north of Copenhagen, with French Impressionism, Danish art around 1900 and an extension by Zaha Hadid.
Design and history
Museums of Danish design, of Danish history and of the Viking ships raised from Roskilde Fjord.
Designmuseum Danmark The Copenhagen museum of Danish and international design and crafts, from Kaare Klint and Arne Jacobsen to Chinese porcelain.
National Museum of Denmark Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, in the Prince's Palace in Copenhagen, covering 14,000 years from the Ice Age to the Vikings and beyond.
Viking Ship Museum Denmark's national museum of prehistoric and medieval ships in Roskilde, built around five Viking ships raised from Roskilde Fjord.
Royal castles
The Renaissance castles of Denmark, from Hamlet's Elsinore to the crown jewels in Copenhagen.
Kronborg The Renaissance castle at Helsingør on the narrowest point of the Øresund, the Elsinore of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Rosenborg Castle Christian IV's Renaissance castle in the King's Garden in Copenhagen, where the Danish crown jewels and regalia are kept.
Frederiksborg Castle Christian IV's Renaissance palace on three islets in the castle lake at Hillerød, home of the Museum of National History.
Egeskov A Renaissance water castle on oak piles in a lake in southern Funen, with gardens, mazes and museums of cars and machines.