Amalienborg Museum is included on both cards. Adult entry is €18 (135 DKK) without one, and it is closed on Mondays. Card holders request a time slot at the museum shop.
Both cards cover the museum inside Christian VIII's Palace. The square outside, and the guard on it, are free to everyone.
One palace of the four on the octagon, opened as a museum. An hour is enough inside, and the square itself is worth timing your arrival around.
Rooms left as the monarchs used them, down to the desks and the pipe racks — Christian IX and Frederik VIII's studies are the closest thing in Denmark to a working royal interior rather than a state set piece.
The Royal Life Guards leave Rosenborg at 11:30am and reach Amalienborg around noon, every day. It is free, it happens on the square outside, and it links two card attractions across the middle of the city.
Four identical rococo palaces around a square, with the Marble Church behind and the Opera House directly across the harbour on the axis. Standing in the middle of it costs nothing.
One operational catch that also applies at Rosenborg, and one bag rule that catches people out. Confirmed against denkongeligesamling.dk.
Five minutes from Marmorkirken on the M3, on the harbour side of Frederiksstaden. Both cards include entry.
All three are included on the same card, so the only cost of adding them is the time. For the full list, see every attraction the Copenhagen Card covers.
Danish design from Klint and Juhl to Jacobsen and Panton, in a rococo former hospital on Bredgade. Thursday opening runs to 8pm.
Contemporary exhibitions in the old academy building at the head of Nyhavn — large, changing shows rather than a permanent collection.
Denmark's military history in the 17th-century arsenal on Slotsholmen, with a vaulted hall of cannon running its full length.
Entry is €18 per adult (135 DKK) without a card. Both cards include it, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport — and the Changing of the Guard outside costs nothing either way.
Entry is free on both the Discover and Hop cards, covering Christian VIII's Palace, the royal studies, the gala rooms and the Costume Collection. Adult admission without a card is €18 (135 DKK at the door, 125 DKK online).
The Amalienborg Museum closes every Monday, all year. The square outside is public and the Changing of the Guard still happens daily at noon, so a Monday visit to Amalienborg is not wasted — you simply cannot go inside.
A time slot is needed, but card holders cannot book one online. Present the QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the museum shop and request a slot on arrival. Rosenborg, run by the same royal collection, works exactly the same way.
One scan per attraction is the rule on every card type, so Amalienborg Museum can be visited once. Leaving and coming back the same day means buying a separate ticket at the door. Plan the visit as a single stretch rather than splitting it across a day.
Show the live QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the museum shop and ask for a time slot. Only very small handbags are allowed inside and free lockers are provided. The entrance is through the gate nearest Frederiksgade.