Nikolaj Kunsthal is included on both cards. Adult entry is €15 (110 DKK) without one, and it is closed on Mondays. The same ticket also covers two other card venues.
Both cards cover full entry to the exhibitions. The tower is a separate question, and not one that has been settled.
Contemporary art hung inside a medieval church off Strøget, with no permanent collection. An hour is enough, and the room does much of the work.
St Nikolaj is Copenhagen's third oldest church, and the exhibitions hang in the nave under the vaulting rather than in white boxes built inside it. The contrast between the building and the work is the reason to come.
There is no permanent collection. What is on depends entirely on when you visit, which makes it a repeat visit for residents and a lottery for everyone else — worth checking the programme first.
The 35-metre spire is one of the more recognisable things on the Copenhagen skyline and free to look at from Nikolaj Plads. Going up it is a separate arrangement — see below.
One ticket here covers more than this building, one day a week costs nothing, and one thing is genuinely unresolved. Confirmed against nikolajkunsthal.kk.dk.
Nikolaj Plads, in the middle of the old town between Strøget and Højbro Plads. Three minutes from two metro stations, and on both cards.
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 city's own story from the medieval settlement onward, including finds pulled out of the ground during the metro excavations.
Denmark's oldest museum, built around Bertel Thorvaldsen's own collection, with painted ceilings and the sculptor buried in the courtyard.
Large contemporary exhibitions in the old academy building at the head of Nyhavn, in one of the biggest gallery suites in northern Europe.
Entry is €15 per adult (110 DKK) without a card, and that ticket also covers Thorvaldsens Museum and the Museum of Copenhagen for 48 hours. Both cards include all three, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport.
Full entry to the exhibitions 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 the Museum of Copenhagen for 48 hours, so the three are one purchase.
Nikolaj Kunsthal closes every Monday, all year. It opens Tuesday to Friday from 11am to 6pm and at weekends from 11am to 5pm. Entry is free to everyone on Wednesdays and free for pensioners on Tuesdays, so a Wednesday visit needs no card scan.
Nothing needs booking for the exhibitions. Show the QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the desk and walk in. The guided tower tours are different — they run at weekends, typically 1pm, and whether the card covers them is not confirmed.
One scan per attraction applies, so this is a single visit per card. Thorvaldsens Museum and the Museum of Copenhagen count as their own attractions and their own scans, even though a paying visitor covers 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.