Hørsholm

Danish Museum for Hunting and Forestry in Copenhagen is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. 

The museum is housed in the beautiful old 18th century stables and barns belonging to the no longer existing Hirschholm Palace.

In the heart of Hørsholm Palace Garden you will find Hørsholm Church, where Hirschholm Palace once stood. Here in this remote place one of Denmark's largest royal scandals played out - the love affair between Queen Caroline Mathilde and her physician Johan Friedrich Struensee.

In 1771 the pair spent the summer in the palace, where Caroline Mathilde gave birth to a girl, Princess Louise Augusta, whom her husband King Christian 7 acknowledged as his daughter, but all knew she was in fact Struensee's.

Hørsholm Museum tells the story of one of Europe's most beautiful baroque palaces, Hirschholm Palace, where the love affair between Queen Caroline Mathilde and her physician Johan Friedrich Struensee played out.

The museum exhibits models, plans and paintings as well as individual objects from the palace. There are also portraits of some of the people whose fate is linked to the castle. Hørsholm Museum also has quite a large Struensee collection of written critism against him and press coverage from around 1770.

Hørsholm Midtpunkt is a shopping mall in the heart of North Zealand.

The center offers more than 60 shops, presenting the latest trends in fashion, lifestyle and design.

In the center you can also buy good wine and delicacies.

Hørsholm Palace Garden is called so because it used to encircle the now demolished Hirschholm Palace, north of Copenhagen.

Hirschholm Palace was an impressive Baroque building, where the love scandal between the insane King Christian 7's wife Queen Caroline Mathilde and her lover physician Johan Friedrich Struensee played out. Take a walk in Caroline Mathilde and Struensee's footsteps, sit on a bench and feel the history.

Visit the former home of internationally renowned writer Karen Blixen aka Isaak Dinesen.

The Karen Blixen Museum is located directly by the Øresund Sound in Rungstedlund, an enchanting park and bird sanctuary north of Copenhagen.

Visit the world famous Stone Age graves from Vedbæk on the beautiful coast line north of Copenhagen.

In the exhibition you come up close and touch the furs from the animals that the Stone Age people hunted in the dense virgin forest. You can even touch copies of the weapons used to kill the hunters’ prey.

At culture house Trommen (The Drum) you can enjoy concerts, theater, lectures and creative workshops.

Trommen was built in 1987 by architect Knud Munk and with its characteristic round, beautiful concert hall it is one of North Zealand's architectural and cultural landmarks.