Københavns Museum / Museum of Copenhagen, Stormgade

Gammel Strand

The idea of grouping together major monuments and museums and galleries in the historic centre of Copenhagen to promote them as a Kulturkvarter or Cultural District appears to have been given a reboot.

Simple and well-designed information panels have been set up near 19 of the buildings where you can pick up a leaflet with a map that also has short descriptions of each building or cultural institution in Danish and English. All are within a 10 minute walk and the guide does not suggest a proscribed route so it is a good way to explore but to let yourself be diverted or distracted as you walk in the area between the harbour and the west end of the old city and covering the whole of the area of the old castle - now the palace and government buildings of Christiansborg.

There are links to the Instagram and Facebook pages of the Kvarter / Cultural District and the web address of each destination is also given so the guide can simply be the entry point for using a mobile phone for more information about opening times and so on.

Københavns Kulturkvarter
Kulturkvarter on Instagram
Kulturkvarter on Facebook