The Danish Architecture Centre is included on both cards. Adult entry is €18 (135 DKK) without one. It opens every day, with late closing on Mondays and Thursdays.
Both cards cover full entry. The building is worth as much of your attention as the exhibitions inside it.
Denmark's national centre for architecture, inside a building that argues its own case — BLOX, straddling the harbour road on Bryghuspladsen. Allow an hour and a half.
Forty metres of slide running down through the building from the top floor. It is included with entry, it is genuinely fast, and it is the reason a fair number of people come at all. Adults use it as much as children do.
So Danish! is the permanent exhibition — a thousand years of Danish architecture in films, models, original drawings and full-size installations. Around it run changing shows on cities and how people live in them, so what is on alongside it is worth checking first.
The building bridges a main road and the harbour front at once, in stacked green-glass boxes. Standing in it is the fastest way to understand what contemporary Danish architecture is actually trying to do.
The opening hours are the practical reason to plan around this one, and they are unusual in both directions. Confirmed against dac.dk.
On the harbour at Bryghuspladsen, five minutes from Gammel Strand. Both cards cover entry; only one covers the journey.
It covers Danish Architecture Centre along with 80+ other attractions and all public transport.
Only going here? The card pays for itself across several attractions, not one. If Danish Architecture Centre is the only thing on your list, a single ticket is the cheaper buy.
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.
The black granite extension to the Royal Danish Library, cantilevered over the harbour, with an atrium running its full height.
Denmark's national collection — the Bronze Age Sun Chariot, the bog finds and the Viking rooms — with a Children's Museum in the same ticket.
The 1843 pleasure gardens beside Copenhagen Central — gardens, buildings and the wooden rollercoaster.
Entry is €18 per adult (135 DKK) without a card, and the 40-metre slide is included. Both cards cover it, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport.
Full entry is free on both the Discover and Hop cards, covering the exhibitions and the 40-metre DAC Slide. Adult admission without a card is €18 (135 DKK); under-26s and students pay 60 DKK and under-18s are free.
The Danish Architecture Centre opens every day of the week, Mondays included, from 10am to 6pm — and on Mondays and Thursdays it stays open until 9pm. That late Monday opening is unusual in Copenhagen, where most museums are shut that day entirely.
Nothing needs booking. Show the QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the desk and walk in. The DAC Slide is included with entry and needs no separate ticket or reservation.
One scan per attraction applies, so this is a single visit per card. The exhibitions change through the year rather than running permanently, so a return trip on a later visit to the city is a different proposition from a second scan on this one.
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.