In two days, Queen Margrethe II will become the second monarch, and first queen, to abdicate the Danish throne. The last (and only other) time an abdication happened in Denmark was back in 1146, when ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered the wreck of the Danish warship Dannebroge, which sank over 200 years ago during a naval battle with Admiral Horatio Nelson's British fleet. The discovery ...

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Researchers studying two shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica discovered they belonged to a dark part of Danish history. John Fhær Engedal Nissen The National Museum of Denmark Centuries after ...

Zoom out. What makes this museum a staple of Copenhagen? Denmark’s largest museum is a stunning display of cultural history, both Danish and foreign. Located in the 18th-century Prince’s Palace, ...