Easter in Copenhagen

Explore the royal work rooms and halls with your very own audio guide. Find the 11 objects featuring animal motifs, each with its own voice and personality telling fun and exciting stories about the residents of Amalienborg and life at the palace. 

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Theatre Workshop                                                  
Unleash your inner imaginative monster at the theatre workshop! Inspired by the creatures in Monster Chetwynd’s newly opened exhibition, you’ll get to transform into wild and wacky beings. No previous theatre experience needed. The workshop takes place both inside the exhibition and in a dedicated space nearby. The workshop lasts 2 hours (with a short break) from 12–2pm.For children aged 7–11.

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LEGO architect for a Day               
Join the LEGO workshop and help design new water architecture. During Easter The Danish Architecture Center is packed with a wide range of fun activities and exciting exhibitions for both kids and adults. Discover the brand-new exhibition Recycle! or learn about the history of architecture from the Viking Age all the way to today in our exhibition So Danish! In the cosy family workshop, you can explore recycling and architecture through hands-on sensory play. 

Dansk Arkitektur Center

here’s plenty to look forward to this Easter at Den Blå Planet.
Join Søs the Seahorse on an underwater adventure and meet sea creatures with superpowers. Along the way, a magical suitcase filled with treasures is opened – children can touch real shark teeth and turtle shells. This sensory storytelling experience is perfect for little ones and takes place as a fairy-tale circle time at 10:30 in the Auditorium.

You can also make your own Easter basket. We provide the paper and instructions – you do the weaving, and of course, you get to take your basket home. Drop in between 11:00 and 17:00 in the Auditorium.

Den Blå Planet

Design your own Flowers                    

Design your own colourful textile flowers using recycled fabric. Discover how an old cloth napkin or tablecloth can be transformed into a beautiful flower using simple craft techniques. You can design up to three flowers—and take home a lovely handmade fabric bouquet!
Designmuseum Danmark

Armed with a compass, map, flashlight, and adventure bag, The Great Diamond Hunt takes curious children and their adults through the library's buildings. The treasure hunt is free and is especially suited for children aged 6-12 and their adults. Pick up a free adventure bag from the library shop in The Black Diamond. 

The Great Diamond Hunt 

Equipped with a free experience box, the whole family can go on a secret hunt in the Library Garden. Meet a famous king, a thoughtful author and many more historical characters between the garden's animals and plants. Go on a bird safari, design a statute, be queen for a day, listen to the garden and much much more. Pick up the experience box from the library shop. For kids aged 5-11. 

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Eggzotic Easter                                                                    
Hop into an EGG-stra fun Easter at the Zoo! Meet adorable baby animals, test your knowledge in a real poo-quiz, and dive into the fun and educational challenges of the ZOO Mission. Collect fabric badges and become one of the Zoo’s important Nature Heroes!

Easter in Copenhagen  ZOO

Plants, Myths and Drawing         
Listen to the to myths and stories about gods and plants in the Glyptotek winter garden. Put on the wireless headphones and hear the story of a boy transforming into a daffodil, Hercules fetching a lemon from the end of the world, and a palm tree preparing for its final days. Meanwhile, you can draw or simply enjoy the garden and the stories. At 11:30 AM and 2:00 PM you can hop on a free guided tour of the museum.

Glyptoteket

Egg-cellent fun.                                                              
During Easter Experimentarium becomes the Egg-sperimentarium. Test your egg-knowledge, try fun experiments with eggs and discover lots of egg-citing facts and find the answer to the age-old question: what came first – the chicken or the egg?

Experimentarium

The skeletons rattle in the Archaeological workshop. Here you can take a closer look at the animals living in Copenhagen about 300 years ago. Help investigate the many bones, skulls, horns, and teeth from animals of the old digs. Perhaps you can tell the difference between the bones of cows and horses, sheep, pigs, and fish?

The event is for children of all ages accompanied by an adult.

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Let your imagination run wild this Easter holiday at the National Museum of Denmark. 
Dye eggs, spin wool with a drop spindle, crochet Easter decorations, learn to felt egg warmers, weave a basket, carve your own wooden spoon or butter knife or or go on an Easter hunt through the exhibitions. And the best part? Everything you make, you get to take home.

13 April - 20 April

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Creepy-Crawly Beach Hunt                                        
Join the hunt for creepy-crawly animals and plants along the beach! Explore beach plants and tiny creatures up close. Make your own seed bombs, craft a creepy-crawly animal out of clay or create a beautiful card using colours from plants. Every weekend in April and May from 10 AM to 3 PM.

Naturcenter Amager Strand

Easter at Reffen                                                                                        Help us find 1000 chocolate eggs. Maybe even the golden egg with an extra prize. You can also take part in the letter hunt, solve the word and win a chocolate egg. Pick up your ticket at the B&W Bar. Unleash your creativity with Easter letters, cardboard bunnies and cress nests. Get your face painted or let loose on the dance floor at the kids’ silent disco. Maybe Reffen’s mascot Reffi the Fox will stop by to hand out chocolate eggs.

Reffen

Help guard the Danish crown jewels                              
During Easter, children and their adults can become guardians of the Danish crown jewels. Find stickers of five precious jewels from the collection hidden in jewelry boxes around the castles and collect them in a free booklet. Then  you can see the real jewels in the Treasury and create your own royal brooch in the royal jewelry workshop. 
It costs 30 kroner to make a brooch.

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This Easter, the spotlight is on one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance – Michelangelo. That means there will, of course, be plenty of modelling, drawing and painting in the workshop. Explore the many sculptures, choose your favourite, and see if you can create your own version. 
You can also paint the story of David and Goliath, or try drawing faces and bodies..

SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

Fun with eggs and feathers                    
Explore the fascinating world of eggs and feathers. Get up close to nature’s egg-layers – from toads and snakes to birds and even dinosaurs! Go on a hunt for extraordinary birds and other egg-laying creatures or put your knowledge to the test in The Great Egg Quiz and become a true "eggspert"!       

Statens Naturhistoriske Museum

Paint Easter Eggs in Beautiful Colours      
Get creative with colours in the workshop and take home a beautifully painted egg! The workshop is open on Thursday, April 17 and Sunday, April 20 from 11am to 2pm.
 

Thorvaldsens Museum

Easter Fun at Tivoli                                        
Go  on an egg hunt in Tivoli! Large eggs are placed around the Gardens so you’ll need to look both high and low. The eggs are, of course, beautifully coloured, and each one contains a letter. When put together, these letters form a word.
Use the Easter Map filled with clues. Once you have found all the eggs and figured out the word, submit your Easter Map at Little Tivoli to receive a small Easter surprise. Children have to be accompanied by an adult. 
Grab the Easter Map at all Tivoli entrances, the Service Center, and in Little Tivoli. 

Easter in Tivoli

The Circus Museum invites families to enjoy fun Easter holiday activities for all ages – join a magic show, try your hand at circus skills, go on an egg hunt and get creative with Easter crafts.

In the exhibition, you can explore beautiful, colourful costumes and spectacular props, and learn more about life in the circus, both in and outside the ring.

Children can dress up, watch funny films and take part in the egg hunt. And in the creative workshop, there’s plenty of room to let the imagination run wild making Easter decorations and silly hats.

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Plant Croquis Workshop
Get close to nature and experience a special connection with plants at the plant croquis workshop. 
The workshop is based on the Solarstagia exhibition and led by an artist who will guide you into the dark forest, where you'll greet the plants and sketch quirky stone sculptures.

In the workshop, the croquis drawings will become part of a figure we build using beautiful and wild natural materials. 

The workshop lasts for 2 hours, from 1 PM to 3 PM.

ARKEN - museum for contemporary art

Easter without Electricity                    
Turn off the screens and visit the Danish Museum of Science & Technology. Here you can try out toys, tools, and household gadgets from the time before electricity came into our homes. Write without a computer, play fun games without your PlayStation, and sew or saw by hand to create beautiful decorations for the Easter table.

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Undercover Easter Egg Hunt            
An undercover Easter Bunny has snuck around Ejby Bunker and hidden lots of colourful eggs!
Each egg has a letter on it. Find them all and crack the code to unlock a special Easter prize.   

The Ejby Bunker

Mythical Tales                                                                    
Step into a world of mythical tales. Be inspired by artist Rasmus Myrup’s mythological creatures and the museum’s historical artworks and become the creator of an entirely new creature. Will your creature be friendly or frightening, beautiful or wild? Only your imagination sets the limits.

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Eggceptional Easter                                                        
 

Explore an exceptional Easter filled with family activities and enjoy the spring atmosphere in the great outdoors. Meet the Easter Bunny and embark on an exciting Easter hunt or create the finest Easter decorations and maybe even meet some adorable Easter lambs if you are lucky. For those who love to stay active, a fun challenge awaits on the Easter-themed obstacle course, where there’s plenty of opportunity to jump around like crazy!

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Karen Blixen’s Enchanting Bird Sanctuary
Take part in the free treasure hunt in the Bird Sanctuary. Pick up your treasure map in the shop and head out into the sanctuary to find the answers at the marked stations. Everyone who returns to the shop with the completed hunt will receive a small, delicious chocolate prize.

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History Hunt at Kronborg                                              
Join an action-packed history hunt and uncover who betrayed King Christian IV’s big secret plans to the enemy. Meet and question the castle’s colourful costumed characters—and piece together the clues yourself! 
You can also explore the castle’s many attractions and take part in the grand celebration of Queen Margrethe’s birthday! At 12 noon on April 16, the cannons will fire 27 thunderous salutes in her honour. 

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Colourful activities at the Children's Wing    
Enjoy fun and colourful Easter activities at the Children's Wing inspired by the signs of spring popping up all around the Sculpture Park. Create beautiful flowers, paint Easter eggs and spring landscapes in the flower workshop, and go on an exciting Easter egg hunt and help find the missing colours for the Easter egg!

 

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Easter at Land of Legends                               
Explore the 19th-century farmsteads and learn about old Easter traditions. Listen to country folk share the meaning behind the old Easter days and join in the fun with traditional Easter egg games using the season’s first fresh eggs. Dye your own hen’s Easter egg using early spring plants and winter’s onion peels and help hand-feed the sheep and goats or gather greens for their hungry bellies. 

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Follow the Viking king Svend Tveskæg on a voyage around the world to bring the most important new goods and ideas back to Denmark. Meet merchants from three of the great trading cities of the Viking Age; Hedeby, Paris and Constantinople.          
Guided tours:

11.00: Family tour - Go on a voyage around the world

13.00: Guided tour of the Viking Ship Hall (ENG)

14.00: Family tour - Go on a voyage around the world

Activities:
Make your own purse in the workshop in Børnebygden
Visit the Boatyard where boats are built on weekdays
Solve the Museum Mystery with Astrid (via USEEUM app)
Listen to the Audio Guide, with tracks for both adults and children (via USEEUM app)
Climb Aboard the exhibition, where children and adults can go on a trading voyage
Visit the Hamlet and let the kids play like the Vikings

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