The National Museum is included on both cards. Adult entry is €20 (150 DKK) without one. It opens daily from April to October and closes on Mondays from November to March.
Both cards cover the whole museum. Worth knowing before you plan: this is not a free museum, whatever older guides say.
The largest museum of cultural history in Denmark, in an 18th-century royal residence off Slotsholmen. Allow two to three hours; a family with children will use more.
A bronze horse drawing a gilded disc across a set of wheels, buried in a Zealand bog around 1400 BC and found by a ploughman in 1902. It is the single most recognised object in Danish archaeology and it is smaller than you expect.
Oak coffin burials with clothing and hair still intact, the lur horns, and the bog finds — bodies and offerings preserved by the same waterlogged ground that kept the Sun Chariot. The strongest run of rooms in the building.
A full floor where children can board a Viking ship, dress in period clothing and grind grain, rather than read labels. It is included in the same ticket and is the reason this museum outperforms its rivals for families.
One correction and one seasonal rule decide when to come. Both confirmed against natmus.dk.
Ny Vestergade 10, between Slotsholmen and the town hall — ten minutes on foot from Copenhagen Central. Both cards include entry.
It covers The National Museum along with 80+ other attractions and all public transport.
Only going here? The card pays for itself across several attractions, not one. If The National Museum 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 state rooms still used by the Royal Family, with Bjørn Nørgaard's tapestries in the Great Hall. The Tower beside them is free to everyone.
Bertel Thorvaldsen's own collection in a building made for it, with painted ceilings and ochre walls. The sculptor is buried in the courtyard.
Antiquities and 19th-century French art around a glass-domed winter garden, next to Tivoli. Open until 9pm on Thursdays.
Entry is €20 per adult (150 DKK) without a card, and under-18s are free either way. Both cards include it, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport.
Full entry is free on both the Discover and Hop cards, including the Children's Museum and the temporary exhibitions. Adult admission without a card is €20 (150 DKK at the desk, 135 DKK online) — this is not a free museum, despite what some guides still say.
Opening depends on the season: the museum opens every day from April to October and closes on Mondays from November to March. It also shuts on 24, 25 and 31 December. Check natmus.dk before a Monday visit in winter.
Nothing needs booking. Show the QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the desk and go in — there is no timed entry and no pre-registration. Allow two to three hours, and longer if children are using the Children’s Museum.
One scan per attraction is the rule on every card type, so The National 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 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.