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104 ❯❯ Copenhagen Area by Area

Helsingør

Maritime Museum
Axeltorv
1 6
of Denmark
MAP P2
MAP Q2 • Ny Kronborgvej 1 • 49 21 This square features a statue of Erik
06 85 • Open Sep–Jun: 11am–5pm of Pomerania, the Polish prince who
Tue–Sun; Jul–Aug: 10am–5pm daily ruled Denmark from 1397 to 1439.
• Adm; free with Copenhagen Card &
Stengade and
for under-18s • www.mfs.dk 7
This interactive museum features Strandgade
hands-on digital exhibits. MAP P3 • www.helsingormuseer.dk
Stengade is a pedestrianized street
Festivals
2 in the medieval quarter. Some
www.visitnordsjaelland.com
houses on the parallel Strandgade
Helsingør’s summer festivals include date back to the 1400s; No 91 is now
the Maritime Festival Baltic Sail, the Museet Skibsklarerergaarden.
Sunset Jazz Festival in Hornbæk,
Sankt Olai Kirke
and the Hamlet Festival each August. 8
(Helsingør Domkirke)
Karmeliterklosteret
3 MAP P2 • Sankt Anna Gade 12 • 49
21 04 43 • Open May–Aug: 10am–
MAP P2 • Sankt Anna Gade 38
• 49 21 17 74 • Open 10am–2pm 4pm Mon–Fri; Sep–Apr: 10am–2pm)
Tue–Sun • Adm • www.sctmariae.dk • www.helsingoerdomkirke.dk
The Carmelite Order owned this Note the 15th-century crucifix, the
15th-century Gothic-style monastery. 1568 Renaissance pulpit, the 1579
baptismal font and the carved
Helsingør Bymuseum
4 wooden altar.
MAP P2 • Sankt Anna Gade 36
Danmarks Teknisk
• 49 28 18 00 • Open noon–4pm 9
Tue–Fri & Sun, 10am–2pm Sat • Museum
Adm; free with Copenhagen Card Fabriksvej 25 • 49 22 26 11 • Open
The town museum was once a 10am–5pm Tue–Sun • Adm for adults
sailors’ hospital. Exhibits recall its • www.tekniskmuseum.dk
history and that of this medieval town. The machines at this museum of
science and technology include
Kronborg Slot
5 steam engines, cars and aero planes.
MAP Q2 • Kronborg 2C
Øresundsakvariet
• 49 21 30 78 • Open 11am–4pm 0
daily (Nov–Mar: closed Mon); Jun– MAP P1 • Strandpromenaden 5
Aug: 10am–5:30pm daily • Adm; • 35 32 19 70 • Open Jun–Aug:
free with Copenhagen Card • www. 10am–5pm daily; Sep–May: 10am–
kongeligeslotte.dk 4pm Mon–Fri, 10am–5pm Sat & Sun
Known as the setting of Shakespeare’s • Adm; free with Copenhagen Card
Hamlet, this castle (see p42) was This small aquarium houses an
built in 1420. Its Great Hall is the impressive variety of tropical fish
largest in Europe. and Baltic species.
A yacht sailing
past Kronborg Slot

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