There are several theaters in Copenhagen. Unfortunately, most of these are closed during the summer. The Copenhagen Opera house is located in the harbor and is worth a visit just to see the architecture.

However, there are other options, if you want to see a Danish play. Follow the press during the summer to see where plays are being preformed.

If the weather does not show itself from its best side, there are several cultural options in Copenhagen. Most places have free entrance on Wednesdays.

Following are the most basic museums.

Dansk Design Center shows the best of Danish design during the last 50 years. Everything from Lego to Bang & Olufsen.

Nationalmuseet - The National Museum - is Denmark’s central museum of cultural history. It is responsible for Denmark’s principal collection of cultural history. The Museum houses collections of Danish and foreign museum artefacts that may illuminate the culture from its origin to the present day. It is a priority goal for the Museum that the collections shall be accessible – in the broadest sense of the word – to research and communication through conservation, recording and storage activities.

Statens Museum for Kunst - the Danish national gallery - is the only place in Denmark which features 700 years of Western art and cultural history under one roof. The museum houses a large collection of Danish and international paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations.

ARKEN's Collection comprises almost 400 works of art. ARKEN collects Danish, Nordic and international art with special emphasis on contemporary art, i.e. works from 1990 onwards. There are two unifying principles in the Collection: one is art concerned with the existence of modern man, the other focuses on art that via new forms, materials and media explores the very definition of art.

Louisiana's exhibition program has taken it's inspiration from MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which became famous – and notorious – in the first half of the 20th century for broadening the concept of modern art to include architecture, design, photography, film, etc. On its own initiative, Louisiana has from time to time supplemented modern art with exhibitions focusing on cultural history and ethnography.

The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek was founded by the brewer Carl Jacobsen, who created one of the largest private art collections of his time. It was named after his brewery, Ny Carlsberg, with the addition of "Glyptotek", meaning collection of sculpture. Jacobsen was interested in contemporary French and Danish art, as well as ancient art from the cultures surrounding the Mediterranean. To secure the future of the collection, Carl Jacobsen and his wife Ottilia donated it to the public in two deeds of gift from 1888 and 1899. The Museum's buildings were created to house these works of art.

Thorvaldsens Museum was built from 1839 to 1848 and is Denmark’s oldest museum building. Thorvaldsen lived and worked in Rome from 1797 to 1838 and became a famous European artist.The Museum houses nearly all of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen’s original models for the sculptures he created for numerous European countries. His drawings and sketches for sculptures and reliefs are also part of the collections in the, along with his extensive collection of paintings from his time and art works and objects from Greek, Roman and Egyptian Antiquity.

Experimentarium's concept is based on hands-on experience and use of all the senses, and visitor curiosity are to be aroused through play, fun and surprises. The centres are to be educational and entertaining excursion destinations people at all ages, who will be given an opportunity to carry out interesting experiments and gain hands-on experience of science, i.e. everybody will be allowed to work actively with the displays and will therefore learn more and achieve a better understanding of science.

All movies are shown in their original language with Danish subtitles. There are several mainstream movie theaters, but there are also some that show more alternative movies.

Cinemaxx is located in Fisketorvet Shopping centre. Tall film lovers, who are used to curl up in cinema seats, can look forward to 1.2 metres of leg-room and soft seats. The cinema hall slopes 15 percent like in an amphitheatre, so nobody will miss the climax of the film due to tall people, high hats, and other imaginable obstacles.

Imperial can take 1102 guests and is the biggest cinema in Copenhagen. They only run one movie at the time, usually the biggest premiere.

Cinemateket is for center-city cineastes. The big clock on Gothersgade will tell you what time it is-it's time to see a film! Cinemateket affiliated with the Danish Film Institute, does its best to appeal to the discriminating cineaste, featuring the best in classic, foreign, documentary, art, and alternative film year round. The latest short- and documentary films are showed here, a long with the final films from the DanishFilmSchool.