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Beyond Copenhagen ❮❮ 101

Louisiana Museum
8 DAY TOUR BEYOND COPENHAGEN
MAP B1 • Gammel Strandvej
13, Humlebæk • 49 19 07 19 • Open Helsingør
11am–10pm Tue–Fri, 11am–6pm
Sat & Sun • Adm for adults; free with Humlebæk
Copenhagen Card • English guided Rungsted
tours available • www.louisiana.dk Kyst
This museum (see p103) houses an
impres sive selection of works by Klampenborg
inter national artists like Picasso and
Francis Bacon, and Danish masters Copenhagen
including Asger Jorn and Per Kirkeby. Central Station
There is also a children’s wing, which MORNING
offers art-related activities for kids
aged between 3 and 16 years. The Take a train from Københavns
coastal location, sculpture park and Hovedbanegård (Copenhagen
excel lent café make the museum Central Station) and head to the
even more appealing for visitors. town of Helsingør to explore the
local museums and castles. Have
a wander around Kronborg Slot
(see p104), a lovely 16th- century
castle with a banqueting hall,
royal chambers and casemates,
and see why it was immortalized
as Elsinore in Hamlet. After your
castle tour, stop by the Maritime
Museum of Denmark (see p104).
For lunch, return to the town
square and sit down for an open
sandwich and a beer at one of
its numerous pubs. After lunch,
wander through the medieval
Courtyard at Kronborg Slot streets, especially Stendgade
and Strandgade (see p104). Visit
Helsingør
9 the medieval Domkirke and the
Bymuseum (see p104), housed
In the 1400s, this harbour town
levied tax on all sea traffic that passed in a small Carmelite hospital
dating back to 1520.
through the Sound. A pretty medieval
centre aside, there is the 16th-century AFTERNOON
castle, Kronborg Slot, the Carmelite
monastery and the Maritime Take the train to Humlebæk and
Museum of Denmark (see p104). visit the Louisiana Museum (see
p103), which stays open until 10pm
Karen Blixen Museet
0 on Tuesdays to Fridays. There are
plenty of things to see here, and
MAP B2 • Rungsted Strandvej
that encompasses the museum’s
111, Rungsted Kyst • 45 57 10 57 you can book into a guided tour
• Open May–Sep: 10am–5pm Tue– archi tecture and landscape. Then
Sun; Oct–Apr: 1–4pm Wed–Fri, 11am– return to the station and take a
4pm Sat & Sun • Adm; free for under- train to Rungsted Kyst and drop
in at the Karen Blixen Museet.
14s; free with Copenhagen Card After a walk around the house,
• Book ahead for guided tours in garden and bird sanctuary, have
English • www.blixen.dk coffee and one of the home-made
Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak cakes at the museum café. Head
Dinesen), the author of the acclaimed back towards Copenhagen in the
memoir Out of Africa, was born here early evening, stopping off en
in 1885. Blixen returned in 1931 and route at Klampenborg for dinner
the house is exactly as it was when and an evening of enter tainment
at the Bakken funfair (see p52).
she lived here.
See map on p98
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