Museums in Denmark

The childhood home of the author of Pelle the Conqueror.

An underground museum of monks, bones, and medieval ruins.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

This antique farmhouse is one of Læsø's rare seaweed houses.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.