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Design Museum Denmark
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What it is
Denmark's national museum of design and applied arts, in a converted eighteenth-century hospital in Frederiksstaden, best known for its gallery of twentieth-century Danish chairs.
Why travelers go
Because Danish design is the thing Copenhagen is most famous for, and this is where you can see the originals rather than the version of them sold at every furniture chain in the world.
What is genuinely good
The Danish Chair gallery. Free entry for under-18s. A calm building with a courtyard garden, late opening on Thursdays, and a shop that is actually good.
Downsides and tourist traps
Expensive for its size. Deliberately narrow in scope. If you are not curious about objects and how they are made, ninety minutes will feel like plenty.
Best for
Anyone with an interest in furniture, industrial design or craft, and families, given free entry for under-18s.
Consider skipping if
You are indifferent to design objects. There is no broad art collection here to fall back on.
Practical advice
The ticket office closes an hour before the museum does. Thursday evening is the quietest slot. Combine it with Amalienborg and the harbour walk, which are both minutes away.
Tickets and reservations
Adults pay DKK 140. Under-27s and students with valid ID and student card pay DKK 90. Children under 18 enter free. Groups of ten or more pay DKK 110 per person.
Getting there
A fifteen-minute walk from Kongens Nytorv metro, or a short walk north from Nyhavn past Amalienborg. Bus 1A stops nearby.
Where it sits
Bredgade in Frederiksstaden, the eighteenth-century royal quarter, a few minutes from Amalienborg Palace and the Marble Church, and within easy walking distance of Nyhavn.
How long to allow
Ninety minutes to two hours, longer if the temporary exhibition interests you.
Accessibility
Step-free access with lifts to the exhibition floors and accessible toilets.
The RuinMyTrip verdict
The best ninety minutes in Copenhagen if you care at all about how objects are made. Free for under-18s, late on Thursdays, and the chair gallery alone justifies the hundred and forty kroner.
Sources
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Adult admission is DKK 140, under-27s and students pay DKK 90, and children under 18 are free. source
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The museum opens Monday to Sunday 10.00 to 18.00, and until 20.00 on Thursdays. source
From the RuinMyTrip team
Written by RuinMyTrip Editorial from published research and official sources, not from a personal trip. It is not a traveler review and is never counted in the community rating. How we research.
Design Museum Denmark charges DKK 140 for adults, DKK 90 for under-27s and students with valid ID, and admits children under 18 free. It opens daily from 10.00 to 18.00, with late opening until 20.00 on Thursdays. The museum is the answer to a question most visitors to Copenhagen arrive already asking: why does everything here look like that. The Danish Chair gallery alone lines up the twentieth century's most…
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