Winter break

Winter break at Absalon offers a wide range of fun activities: felt workshop, life drawing for kids, pizza and bead crafts, knitting workshop, silent disco, drawing workshop, children’s music bingo, pony workshop, cardboard castle building with popcorn, jewellery workshop, the Absalon Championships in freeze dance, and a board game café..

Winter break in Absalon

The Children’s Music Festival takes over Amager during the winter holidays! From 8 to 15 February, Amager’s cultural centres, libraries, and theatres will come alive with pop, punk, rock, rave, folk music, classical concerts, singing, dancing, and creative workshops for children of all ages.

And enjoy jazz performed at a child-friendly level. It will be hard to sit still as the vibrant colours, sounds, moods, and impressions wash over the audience.

Join in with morning songs, explore new movements at dance workshops, and experience both soothing and energetic concerts. There are plenty of opportunities to try something new and have fun together!

Amager Children's Music Festival

What did children do before screens existed and when families could not afford to buy toys? A time when courtyards featured outhouses, rats, and rubbish, yet still served as playgrounds for children. All of this can be experienced at the Workers Museum. Visitors can also create their own rag doll, sort bottles at the brewery, work as a bicycle courier, or take on the role of a shopkeeper.

Winter break at the Workers Museum

This winter break you can step into a dramatised experience for children in the "Power & Magic" exhibition set within the dark ruins. An expert will guide you on a historical journey into the mystical past. Along the way, you’ll encounter a persecuted witch from the 1600s and the legendary King Christian IV. You'll also have the chance to test your own magical skills and experiment with enchanted artifacts. Who in your family will emerge as the most powerful magician?

Magic at Christiansborg Palace

Imagine stepping into a world where streets are rivers and cities are flooded – how would we adapt and create solutions? Become a LEGO® Architect in an exciting workshop where you’ll help design solutions for a city facing water issues. Where should we build – by, on, in, or even under the water?

Join the workshops during the winter break and receive your own building mission. Explore the "Water is Coming" exhibition showcasing ideas for sustainable water architecture, and capture a photo of your creation in our photo booth. Share your work in the LEGO gallery and receive a personalised certificate.

Enjoy a festive touch by joining the family workshop to decorate a traditional Danish Fastelavnsris with an architectural twist.

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Armed with a compass, map, flashlight, and an 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. 

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During the winter holidays you can make your own mask. We have found marbled paper, luxury paper, glitter, and colours so you can give your mask its very own expression. You can also dress up in fun, beautiful hats and capes. 

Great for children aged  3-11. 

Make your own mask at the Royal Danish Library 

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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During the winter break, the Vikings are taking over the War Museum! Join them in battle and test your strength with physical exercises. The Viking group Ulfhednir will demonstrate how the Vikings trained and fought - definitely an action-packed event! After the show, you’ll have the chance to meet the Vikings up close and ask them about their warrior training. The Viking demonstration is held twice a day.

Vikings at the Danish War Museum

Visit the Design Workshop during the winter break, where children and families can try "upcycling" recycled textiles and sew a small purse or pencil case. Here, you'll have the opportunity to create your own design inspired by the exhibition AKUT #6: Fabric of Change which focuses on how used textiles can be upcycled into new products. The workshop is a space for creativity, where children can explore various craft techniques with high-quality materials.

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Put on your headphones and relax among blankets in the Winter Garden under the palm trees. Listen to myths and stories about Greek gods, eccentric artists, and forgotten wars. Through the stories, you'll get to know the Glyptotek's sculptures, and you can work on small creative tasks at the same time. 

Winter break activities at Glyptoteket

Try the treasure hunt at the museum. At the reception you get material handed out and then you can go hunting for samples, bones and bats. The activity is suitable for families with children over 7 years. It is free to attend once the entrance fee is paid.

Explore the Medical Museion

During the winter holidays, you can explore parts of Greenland in the National Museum of Denmark try out nine disciplines that will reveal whether you are as strong as a snow hare, a seal, or a musk ox. The National Museum's banquet hall has been transformed into an Arctic snow landscape, where you can jump on ice floes and have snowball fights when you're not competing in two-foot high jumps, hopping on your knuckles like a seal, and trying other challenges in the Inuit games.

In the cinema, there are six kayaks, which, with the help of VR glasses, will take you to Nuuk Fjord. You can row out onto the glassy sea and experience Greenlandic nature from the water.

In the workshops, you can make Greenlandic amulets from seal skin or create your own tupilaks out of clay. The very young ones can draw and paint while hearing the story of Mother of the Sea, Sassuma Arnaa.

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During the winter break, children and their families can step into the role of guardians of the Danish crown jewels. Embark on a treasure hunt around the castle to find stickers of five precious jewels – rubies, emeralds, pearls, rose stones, and diamonds – and collect them in a free album. Once you’ve gathered them all, head to the Treasury to view the real crown jewels. Then, unleash your creativity at the royal jewelry workshop where you can design your own brooch decorated with rhinestones in all the colours of the rainbow.

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Come and touch a crab, examine a herring, paint or create a beautifully crafted paper fish, or join a guided birdwatching tour with your family. If you love fishing, bring your fishing rod along – fishing is allowed in the beach park until May.

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Take the kids to Sofiebadet Bath and Culture House during the winter break for a fun-filled two hours, perfect for both children and adults! Relax in the spa, enjoy the sauna, steam bath, and hot tubs. Kids can play with soap bubbles, scrub each other in the beautiful hammam, and even learn how to make their own salt scrub. The age limit is 6 years and up, and reservations are required.

Family spa day

During the winter break, the Children's Workshop at SMK is offering a creative experience every day during week 7. Explore the art of printmaking by etching, inking, and printing! Under the guidance of the workshop's skilled artists, you can create relief or intaglio prints. You can also paint and construct faces, drawing inspiration from the museum's vast portrait collection and the special exhibition Käthe Kollwitz – Mensch.

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Travel back in time and discover iconic expeditions. Take part when the expedition crates are opened in the Natural History Workshop.

What secrets and discoveries lie hidden within?

See fossils and become an explorer yourself – learn how to find fossils and make exciting discoveries in nature. Become an archaeologist for a day: dig in the archaeological sandbox and uncover real dinosaur bones and prehistoric shark teeth. Experience a winter holiday filled with discovery, play, and learning.

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Every day during the winter break the whole family can visit the Viking Ship Museum and join a special guided tour where you will complete a series of tasks to prepare you to become brave and skilled sailors. You can also make your own small leather pouch – a small and practical pouch where you keep some of the essential items for your future voyages aboard the Viking ships.

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Explore the fascinating history of the Ejby Bunker, a former military facility built during the Cold War. This vast underground complex offers a glimpse into the past, featuring an extensive area filled with historical exhibits, interactive displays, and remnants of military structures. Test your skills as a soldier on a bike patrol, or have your own photo taken in a military uniform. 

All exhibits and most display texts are available in English.

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Find inspiration in the special exhibition Forget Me Not. Life and death masks, along with other objects, tell stories of different life stages. Experiment with creating various prints of hands, feet, ears, and fingers. You can also make your own face silhouettes using light and shadow.

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The town of Freddy Frogface offers exciting activities and entertaining characters for both children and adults. Enjoy storytelling, riddle hunts, fence painting, and making campfire bread on a stick while Otto, the blacksmith, and Mrs. Storm bring the streets to life

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Stop by the Karen Blixen Museum and create your very own treat for the birds. The museum's nature guides are ready to help you craft a beautiful birdseed ball, which you can either take home for the birds in your own garden or hang on a tree in the Karen Blixen Bird Reserve. 

The bird workshop takes place in the museum's beautiful new Bird Room, where you can explore stuffed birds, feathers, and eggs, and listen to the sounds of various bird species.

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Kronborg Castle is the perfect place for those who love adventure and stories during the winter break. Have a chat with the parrot in the castle chambers, leap into the royal four-poster bed, or feel the thrill as you fire a cannon. The castle becomes a giant playground for curious explorers and little rascals where all the senses come to life.

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During the winter holidays, Louisiana Children's Wing invites you to a fun and exciting week focused on the major exhibition, THE SEA, where children aged 7 to 10 can explore colours, shapes, and stories – from grand ideas to simple figures. Throughout the week, there will be opportunities to sculpt, build, and paint, giving you time to investigate and experiment with materials and methods used by the artists in the exhibition. Activities include building jellyfish, painting waves, and working with shells and seaweed.

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