With the card
Included
Discover & Hop
Pre-booking
Not needed
Walk up and scan at the desk
The Card

What the Copenhagen Card covers at the Theatre Museum

Both cards cover entry, and entry here means the run of the building rather than a route past it. There is no admission price on this page, because the museum does not publish one.

Copenhagen Card
What's included
Discover & Hop
✓ The stage itself — you are allowed to walk on it, which almost no historic theatre permits
✓ The boxes and the auditorium, kept as they were rather than refitted
✓ Behind the scenes — the dressing rooms and the working parts of an eighteenth-century theatre
✓ Included on both cards — Discover and Hop alike
At your own cost
Not included
Both cards
✗ Performances, if anything is staged here — a ticket to a show is not the same as museum admission
✗ Food and drink, which the card does not cover anywhere
✗ A second visit. One scan per attraction, so the card opens this door once
Inside

What to see at the Theatre Museum

A museum more than a hundred years old inside a theatre more than two hundred and fifty, on Slotsholmen. Allow an hour.

Highlight 1
You can stand on the stage

This is the whole argument for the visit. Visitors go on stage, into the boxes and behind the scenes, so you see an eighteenth-century theatre from the positions the audience never occupies. Standing where the actors stood, looking out at the boxes, does more than any display case.

Highlight 2
The Court Theatre of 1767

Built for the court at Christiansborg and preserved rather than modernised. The museum inside it has been running for over a century, which makes this a museum of theatre history that is itself a piece of theatre history.

Highlight 3
Ten minutes from four other card venues

It is part of the city’s Cultural District along with Gammel Strand, the Museum of Copenhagen and the Danish War Museum. On a wet afternoon that is four indoor card venues inside a short walk of each other.

Before you visit

Read before you go

What the card settles here and what it does not. Confirmed against teatermuseet.dk and the card issuer's listing.

The museum does not publish an admission price
  • No adult rate is published by the museum or by the card issuer, whose listing gives opening information only.
  • So this page carries no figure, and the Theatre Museum is left out of the break-even calculator entirely. A price nobody can verify cannot be counted as a saving.
  • Coverage itself is settled — the issuer lists the museum on both cards.
The Monday rule is not confirmed
  • We have not been able to establish whether it closes on Mondays, so this page does not say it does and does not say it does not. That is why there is no Mondays figure in the bar above.
  • Check teatermuseet.dk before a Monday visit — though on Slotsholmen a closed door costs you a five-minute walk rather than a day.
  • Our guide to how many days of card to buy works from the venues whose rules are known, and this is not one of them.
Do it as part of Slotsholmen, not on its own
  • An hour covers it, which is the right size for a stop rather than a destination.
  • Christiansborg’s Reception Rooms are five minutes away, and Thorvaldsens Museum is beside them — both on the card.
  • Christiansborg Tower and the Palace Chapel are free to everyone, card or not, so the walk between these venues costs nothing at all.
Getting there

How to get to the Theatre Museum

Slotsholmen, five minutes from the Gammel Strand metro station. Covered on both cards for entry, on one for the journey.

Copenhagen Card
Discover card
✓ Metro M3 to Gammel Strand, then five minutes on foot across onto Slotsholmen. Covered.
✓ About 15 minutes on foot from Copenhagen Central, through the old centre.
✓ Bus 26 stops on Slotsholmen and is covered on Discover.
✓ From the airport — M2 to Kongens Nytorv then M3 to Gammel Strand, about 20 minutes and covered.
Copenhagen Card
Hop card
✓ Entry is included on the Hop card — the museum is covered by both.
✓ The hop-on hop-off routes serve Slotsholmen and the old centre.
✗ The metro and city buses are not covered on the Hop card, so an airport arrival is a separate ticket.
The rest of Slotsholmen
  • Christiansborg’s Royal Reception Rooms are five minutes away, and can close without notice for royal events.
  • Thorvaldsens Museum is immediately beside them, with the sculptor’s own work and his grave in the courtyard.
  • The Danish War Museum is in Christian IV’s Arsenal on the same island, with a 156-metre hall of cannon.
Plan the rest of the day

Nearby attractions also on your 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.

Palace · 5 min walk · Allow 1 hr

Christiansborg Royal Reception Rooms

The state rooms still used by the Royal Family, with the Great Hall tapestries telling a thousand years of Danish history.

Can close without notice when the Royal Family is using it.
Sculpture Museum · 5 min walk · Allow 1.5 hrs

Thorvaldsens Museum

Denmark's oldest museum, purpose-built for Bertel Thorvaldsen's sculpture, with the artist buried in the courtyard.

Closed Mondays. One ticket also covers two other card venues for 48 hours.
Military Museum · 5 min walk · Allow 1.5 hrs

Danish War Museum

Christian IV's Arsenal on Slotsholmen, and the 156-metre Arsenal Hall lined with cannon.

Open daily June to September, closed Mondays the rest of the year. No lift.
Ready to book?

Ready to visit the Theatre Museum?

Entry is included on both the Discover and Hop cards, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport. It is five minutes from Christiansborg, and you can walk the stage.

Common questions

The Theatre Museum — card FAQ

Is The Theatre Museum included with the Copenhagen Card?

Entry is included on both the Discover and Hop cards, and covers the whole building — the stage, the boxes and behind the scenes. The museum publishes no admission price and the card issuer lists opening information only, so this page states no figure.

Is The Theatre Museum open on Mondays?

The Monday rule is not published anywhere we can check, so this page does not claim it either way. Check teatermuseet.dk before a Monday visit, though on Slotsholmen a closed door costs a short walk rather than a day.

Do I need to book The Theatre Museum in advance with the Copenhagen Card?

Nothing needs booking. Show the QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the desk and walk in. There is no timed entry and no separate reservation for going on stage — it is part of the ordinary visit.

Can I visit The Theatre Museum twice on the same Copenhagen Card?

One scan per attraction applies, so this is a single visit per card. An hour covers the building, and the other Slotsholmen venues each count as their own attraction and their own scan.

How do I get into The Theatre Museum with the Copenhagen Card?

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.

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