Selected events

The Degas set of bronzes were meant as studies of movement and were not cast untill after the artist's death. The set belonging to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is one of only four complete sets in the world, and normally only a selection of the bronzes are on show. Now you have the chance of seeing all 70 of them.

"The Argentinian Dinosaurs" will take you back to a wild nature of rivers and forests where only the law of nature ruled. An encounter with a wide collection of the oldest, the largest and the smallest dinosaurs that ever lived on this planet await you in the exhibition.  You can experience newly hatched versions of the Argentin...

The exhibition "Denmark by Design" shows Danish design’s development from 1945 – 2010. Decade for decade you will be able to follow the design’s focus from the individual and the private home to the workplace and the public space – and to solutions of social problems. The exhibition looks at the tendencies through history and how they have affected...

The National Gallery of Denmark now offers a unique opportunity to explore another facet of the artist and phenomenon Bob Dylan than that of singer/songwriter.  Since the 1960s he has worked with pictorial art which a number of album covers and small-scale exhibitions have born witness to. According to Dylan, an artist must always be...

With light as her perpetual source of inspiration, Lin Utzon has expressed herself artistically in clay as one of her preferred sources of material for the last 40 years. In Grimmerhus, the Danish Ceramic Museum in Middelfart in Funen, you can see a retrospective exhibition entitled The light and the Clay, which is the biggest s...

Anselm Kiefer is well represented in Louisiana’s collection, and his works are unconditionally among the visitors’ favourites. Now the museum, with a good 70 works in the exhibition, can boast of the first major showing of his work in Scandinavia. The exhibition will be divided into five themes each of which clarifies an artistic concern, wher...

Exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the creation of the most successful music group of all time: The Beatles! The exhibition tells the story of the music, the fans and the youth culture of the 1960s and provides a chance to revisit the cultural history of that decade in the post-war period – a decade that witnessed massive changes in s...

The autumn exhibition of the spectacular Fuglsang Museum of Art focuses on the Golden Age painter PC Skovgaard (1817-75), whose depictions of Danish summer days created an ideal image of Danish nature. Skovgaard not only created an idyll in his pictures, but was also able to convey the new national self-awareness and strong...

Puccini’s breakthrough work Manon Lescaut is full of brilliant music, catchy arias and stark drama that caused a sensation at the world premiere. The experienced Italian production team and the outstanding international soloists, along with the Chorus of the Danish National Opera and the Århus Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Giordano Bel...

Lulu is a greedy femme fatale who is desired by all, but everyone who encounters her comes to ruin. Young Norwegian star director Stefan Herheim, one of the world’s most sought after opera directors, makes his debut at the Opera House and the music will be conducted by Berg expert Michael Boder. This production will feature the first-ever inclusion...

The winding streets and charming houses of this more than 760-year old city form a perfect framework for Christmas in Tønder. The whole town is decorated, and the cosy feeling is highlighted by Denmark's most beautiful Christmas lights. The town centre, around the Square, will once again be filled with small Christmas cabins, offering delicious sea...

There’s a true Christmassy atmosphere when the lights go on in Miniland and LEGOLAND® is overflowing with Christmas Market stalls, music and comical elves. Father Christmas’s Workshop is open, where he and his elves are waiting to greet you. Every weekend there will be lots of fun, competitions and family adventures that will put you all i...

Wagner's Tristan and Isolde is considered one of the most influential pieces of music of the 19th century. In Wagner's adaption of the medieval story, it becomes a story of both the poetry and the tragedy of love, a stupendous appeal in music to the emotional side of man’s nature. Here directed by the Danish dramatic tenor Stig Fogh Andersen w...

There's no Christmas like Christmas in Tivoli! Tivoli presents all the delights of Christmasses past and present: miniature villages with shops full of gifts and goodies, beautiful scenery with lamps lit in trees and in a large tent at the centre you'll find the charming village of 'Nissekøbing', an exhibition of hundreds of mechanical pixies (in D...

The open air museum The Old Town is made up of 75 different period houses. During the Christmas period the streets will be decorated beautifully, and 16 of the houses will be housing more than 35 different christmas exhibitions. It all adds up to an exciting atmosphere with a true christmassy feeling, where the houses come alive with...

Christopher Wheeldon, the young choreographer with the meteoric career, has created a completely new version of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty. The ballet is a classic, a fantasy-filled adventure for both children and adults that offers grand drama and sublime classical dance. French set designer Jérôme Kaplan is the creator of both the set and cost...

There is no Christmas in Horsens without a visit to Horsens Juleby (Christmas Town). Every year in December Torvet in front of Vor Frelsers Kirke (Our Saviour's Church) in the centre of Horsens is transformed into Horsens Juleby. Between the small, colourfull wooden houses you can hunt for nice Christmas presents, Christmas sweets, and Christmas de...

Christmas market with all the traditional Danish christmas ingredients! Set in a.o. the Knights' Hall where a great variety of arts and crafts and christmas trimmings are sold and in the Stables where traditional christmas delicacies are sold. Children can enjoy a free ride in the pony cart!

The old part of Odense where Hans Christian Andersen's childhood home lies, forms the setting of a period christmas market with all the fun of the fair, illuminations, merry-go-round, and stalls selling goodies and presents. The Hans Christian Andersen Parade performs daily with the winter show

The sport women’s handball has brought Denmark much glory and honour, and everytime the national team participates in a tournament, the Danish population takes part, body and soul. The European Championship in handball for women in 2010 is the ninth in the Championship series. You too can come and cheer the qualifying teams, when the European champ...

Mikael Melbye’s bedazzling and romantic production of Puccini’s indefatigable masterpiece will be staged at the new harbour front opera house for the very first time. The popular opera about the destined love affair between the young poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimi in 19th century Paris evokes high sentiments of love, jealousy, passion an...

This international badminton tournament at the Falconer hotel sees the world's finest players doing battle in three categories: ladies' singles, men's singles and men's doubles. The action takes place on just one court and the spectators (1600 of them) are seated on three sides, just two metres from the action, so they're guaranteed a lively show.