The Museum of Copenhagen is included on both cards. Adult entry is €15 (110 DKK) without one. It opens every day, and entry is free for everyone on Wednesdays.
Both cards cover full entry. The thing worth knowing is what the paid ticket covers, because it is more than this one museum.
A single well-organised run through the city's history, in a rebuilt hall on Stormgade near the town hall. An hour and a half is enough.
The permanent exhibition runs chronologically from the medieval settlement to the present, which makes it the right first stop if you want the rest of Copenhagen to make sense — the fires, the bombardment, the rebuilding that produced the streets you are walking.
Objects pulled out of the ground during the metro excavations, which cut through the medieval city in a way no ordinary dig could. Much of what is on display here was found in the last twenty years.
The shop, the café and the courtyard can be walked into without a ticket at all. Worth knowing if you are passing and only have twenty minutes.
One ticket here does more than you would expect, and the museum is free to everyone on one day a week. Confirmed against cphmuseum.kk.dk.
Stormgade, between the town hall and Slotsholmen. Entry is on both cards; the journey is only on one.
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 Thorvaldsen's own collection in a building made for it — painted ceilings, ochre walls, room after room of neoclassical marble. The sculptor is buried in the courtyard.
Contemporary exhibitions in a deconsecrated medieval church off Strøget, with the work hung in the nave under the vaulting.
Denmark's national collection — the Bronze Age Sun Chariot, the bog finds, the Viking rooms — with a Children's Museum in the same ticket.
Entry is €15 per adult (110 DKK) without a card — and that ticket also covers Thorvaldsens Museum and Nikolaj Kunsthal for 48 hours. Both cards include all three, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport.
Full entry is free on both the Discover and Hop cards. Adult admission without one is €15 (110 DKK) — and the same ticket admits you to Thorvaldsens Museum and Nikolaj Kunsthal for 48 hours, so the three are one purchase rather than three.
The Museum of Copenhagen opens every day of the week, Mondays included — Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Thursday until 8pm, and 11am to 5pm at weekends. That makes it one of the few central museums worth planning a Monday around, since Thorvaldsens and Nikolaj Kunsthal both close that day.
Nothing needs booking. Show the QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the desk and walk in. Ticket sales close 30 minutes before the museum does, and the shop, café and courtyard can be entered without any ticket.
One scan per attraction applies, so this museum is a single visit per card. Thorvaldsens Museum and Nikolaj Kunsthal count as their own attractions and their own scans, even though a paying visitor would cover all three with one ticket.
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.