The Royal Reception Rooms are included on both cards. Adult entry is €19 (140 DKK) without one. The palace can close without notice when the Royal Family is using it.
Both cards cover the Reception Rooms. What they do not cover is the rest of the palace, which the card counts separately.
One floor, a fixed route, and an hour is enough. These are working rooms — the Queen still receives heads of state in them, which is why they close at short notice.
Seventeen woven panels by Bjørn Nørgaard, given to Queen Margrethe II for her fiftieth birthday, running the length of the hall and covering a thousand years of Danish history in a deliberately modern style. Nothing else in the palace looks like them.
The room where Danish monarchs are proclaimed, opening onto the balcony from which the proclamation is made. The last one was in January 2024, so this is recent history rather than a museum set piece.
The tallest tower in Copenhagen, with a viewing platform over Slotsholmen and the harbour. It is free to everyone, card or not, and reached by a separate entrance — worth doing whether or not you go into the Reception Rooms.
This is the one card attraction that can be shut on the day with no warning. Prices and closures confirmed against denkongeligesamling.dk.
Slotsholmen is an island in the middle of the city, ten minutes on foot from almost anywhere in the centre. Both cards get you there.
It covers Christiansborg Royal Reception Rooms along with 80+ other attractions and all public transport.
One ticket covers the whole palace — the state rooms, the kitchen, the ruins and the stables. There is no rooms-only ticket. Buy it if you are not getting a Copenhagen Card.
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.
Bertel Thorvaldsens's own collection in a building designed around it — ochre walls, painted ceilings and room after room of neoclassical marble. The sculptor is buried in the courtyard.
Denmark's national collection, from the Bronze Age Sun Chariot and the Trundholm finds through to the present. The Children's Museum makes it the strongest family stop in the centre.
The Royal Library extension on the waterfront, clad in black granite that reflects the harbour. Exhibition spaces inside, and the atrium is worth the walk on its own.
Entry is €19 per adult (140 DKK) without a card. Both cards include it, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport — and the Ruins and Royal Kitchen next door count as separate attractions you have already paid for.
Entry to the Royal Reception Rooms is free on both the Discover and Hop cards. Adult admission without one is €19 (140 DKK). The Royal Kitchen and the Ruins are separate card attractions in the same palace, each needing its own scan.
Monday opening runs from 6 July to 16 August 2026 only; the rest of the year the Reception Rooms close on Mondays. Last entry is 30 minutes before closing whichever day you go. The Tower and Palace Chapel are free to everyone and keep their own hours.
Booking is not the issue here — closures are. The rooms shut without prior announcement when the Royal Family uses them, so check on the morning of your visit rather than planning a whole day around it. Known 2026 closures include 26 June, 17 August and 31 August.
One scan per attraction applies, so the Reception Rooms are a single visit. The Royal Kitchen and the Ruins count separately, so a card covers all three — but do not buy the palace combined ticket, which bundles them at 175–215 DKK.
Show the live QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the entrance and let staff scan it. Your booking confirmation email is not your card, and a screenshot of the QR code will not scan — it has to be the app itself, which works offline once activated.