The Best Museums in the Nordics

Humlebæk and Aarhus

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art stands on the Øresund coast at Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, and is reached by train and a short walk. The other two Danish museums are in Aarhus. Moesgaard Museum shows archaeology and Danish history, including the Grauballe Man bog body, in a building whose grass roof is open to walk on. Den Gamle By is an open-air museum built as a town, with streets from the 19th century, 1927 and the 1970s.

Stockholm and Copenhagen

The Vasa Museum in Stockholm is built around one object, a warship that sank in the harbour on its first voyage in 1628 and was raised 333 years later. Visitors see the hull from galleries on several levels and cannot board it. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in central Copenhagen shows Greek, Roman and Egyptian sculpture, Danish painting and French Impressionists around a glass-domed winter garden with palm trees.