The Viking Ship Museum is included on the Discover card, not Hop. Adult entry is €22 (165 DKK) in summer without one. It is 26 minutes by train to Roskilde and opens daily.
The Discover card covers the museum and the 26-minute train to Roskilde. The Hop card covers neither — it excludes day trips.
Two halves: the hall holding the originals, and a working boatyard on the water outside. Allow two hours, and more if the yard is busy.
Skuldelev 1 to 6, deliberately sunk around 1070 to block a channel into Roskilde and raised in 1962. A deep-sea trader, a longship, a coastal freighter and a fishing boat — the surviving timbers held in steel frames that show the missing shape.
Boatbuilders working in the open with axes and period joinery, building sailable reconstructions rather than display pieces. You can walk up and watch, and they will talk about what they are doing.
The museum sits on the water the ships were pulled out of, with the reconstructions moored alongside. Standing on the quay does more to explain the collection than the hall does.
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Roskilde is 26 minutes west of Copenhagen by train, and the fare is the second half of what the Discover card saves you here.
It covers Viking Ship Museum along with 80+ other attractions and all public transport.
Nobody sells this museum's entry ticket on its own. What is bookable is a four-and-a-half-hour guided tour of Roskilde Cathedral and the ships with a storyteller — and the tickets to both are not in the price. The operator says card holders enter the cathedral free, and the Discover card covers this museum, so a card holder pays for the guide and nothing else. Worth knowing first: this museum runs its own guided tours roughly hourly, included in admission. The tour allows no mobility scooters, pets or high heels.
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 burial church of the Danish monarchy since the 15th century — forty kings and queens in one brick cathedral, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Roskilde's own history, from the Viking settlement through its years as the Danish capital, in the old merchant's house on Sankt Ols Gade.
A reconstructed Iron Age settlement, Viking marketplace and 1800s farm on open ground, staffed by people working the sites rather than guarding them.
Entry is €22 per adult (165 DKK) and the Roskilde train is covered too. The Discover card includes both, along with 80+ more attractions and unlimited public transport across the Capital Region.
Entry is free on the Copenhagen Card Discover, covering the ship hall, the boatyard and the hourly guided tours. The Hop card does not include it — Roskilde is a day trip, which that card excludes. Adult admission is €22 (165 DKK) in summer without a card, and 130 DKK in winter.
The museum opens every day of the year, Mondays included, which makes it one of the few reliable Monday options along with Copenhagen Zoo, Experimentarium and Frederiksborg Castle. Hours are 10am–5pm from 1 May to 20 October and an hour shorter in winter.
Nothing needs booking for admission. Show the QR code in the Copenhagen Card app at the desk and go in. The summer sailing trips are different — they cost 300 DKK per adult, are not card-covered, and do fill up.
One scan per attraction applies, so the museum is a single visit per card. Given it is a 26-minute train each way plus a walk from Roskilde station, most people build a whole day around it rather than returning.
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.