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VISIT KRONBORG CASTLE ELSINORE

Kronborg Castle or Hamlet s Castle, immortalised by Shakespeare

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Visit Helsingør or Elsinore (in English) is the home of the famous Kronborg Castle, the setting for Hamlet and the resting place of Holger the Dane. No visit to Denmark is complete without a visit to Elsinore, but there is more to see and do than just visit Kronborg. Helsingor lies on the northeast coast of Sjaelland, an hour's train ride from Copenhagen. Across the Oresund is Helsingborg, Sweden, which can be reached by a short ferry ride.

When you visit Helsingor, your first tourist stop will probably be Kronborg Castle. Here you can view an impressive array of masterpieces and the dank and damp casements. Kronborg Castle is the setting for Shakespeare's Hamlet, but it is also the resting place for one of Denmark's greatest legends - Holger the Dane - who is laying in wait to protect Denmark. Legend has it, that if Denmark is attacked, Holger will rise from his resting place and defend Denmark.

Once you have toured the luxurious grounds including the moats and bastions that form the fortifications of Kronborg Castle, I would suggest you venture into town and walk along the narrow cobblestone streets and visit the shops housed in half-timbered historical buildings. There is a feeling of really walking back in time. During the summer months you will find a lot of cultural events happening around the Toldkammeret including concerts, street performers, exhibitions and even a children's festival week.

Helsingor also houses three very popular museums: The Oresund Aquarium, The Danish Maritime Museum and The Danish Museum of Science and Technology. The Oresund Aquarium or Oresundsakvariet is located just north of Kronborg castle and is a 20-minute walk from Helsingor train station. The aquarium is also a teaching school, so it is often crowded with children and students. Entrance fee ranges from 35 - 55 kroner. FREE entrance if you have the Copenhagen Card.

The Danish Maritime Museum is also known as Soefartsmuseet is located on the Kronborg grounds, but will soon be moving to a new location on the docks. The museum houses a large collection of maritime memorabilia. Perfect for those who have an interest in the sea and the men who made their lives sailing them.

The Danish Museum of Science and Technology / Teknisk Museum is probably one of my favorite museums, since it has such a large array of "toys for men". Everything from automobiles, planes, bicycles, motorbikes, electrical appliances, science experiments and much much more. Over 8000 square meters of interesting technology - nothing very modern, but fun to see how things have changed over the years. Entrance fee is 50 to 60 kroner, unless you use the Copenhagen Card and than it is FREE. In the summertime, the beaches north of Helsingor are quite famous for the fabulous bathing opportunities. The best are along the west coast off the Kattegut, about a 30-minute bus ride from Helsingor.

Hamlet and Kronborg

The legend’s association with Elsinore and Kronborg did not begin until Shakespeare, presumably due to Elsinore’s status as one of the world’s most important towns in the 1600s. Thanks to the Sound Dues which was a special toll that all passing ships had to pay in the town, Elsinore had become a traffic hub for international shipping.

The town was also regarded as a cultural centre due to the newly built royal castle, Kronborg. It is unknown whether Shakespeare actually ever visited Elsinore. It is known with certainty, however, that a number of English and Scots players from his retinue performed as visiting actors at Kronborg and in the town of Elsinore. They could have been the source of stories about the illustrious castle on the Sound that reached Shakespeare and which inspired him to set the play here.

Hamlet is one of the most famous and frequently performed stage plays in the world. Since the 1600s, countless theatrical productions at the castle and many other venues have endeavoured to keep the legend of Hamlet alive. That is why Kronborg is now known all over the world as Hamlet’s castle, and Elsinore is known as the Town of Hamlet.

Hamlet 's Castle this summer 2010

It will be one of the world's largest theaters, Schaubühne Berlin guests Kronborg castle courtyard.

If you think you've seen Hamlet - think again, Australian Stage - A total wild production, Der Tagesspiegel, a coup - The Sydney Morning Herald.

To read the fantastic reviews in the international press when it comes to Schaubüne Berlin setup of Hamlet, which toured worldwide. This summer comes the idea to play Hamlet on stage in Kronborg Castle From 17th to 22 August,

Hamlet scene Lars Roman Engel has chosen this unique setup as summer performance at Kronborg Castle and the audience might begin to rejoice.

It will be one of the world's largest theaters, Schaubühne Berlin guests Kronborg castle courtyard. The acclaimed director Thomas Ostermeier has created a superb production at every level, from idea to execution. The bold new interpretation of Marius Von Mayenburg and the use of expressions from everyday life has created a rebirth of a classic. The crew consists of six star actors who play all roles. They make it agile and competent with endless surprises. Thomas Ostermeier presenting a rebellious and dynamic Hamlet, who is fighting for his right not to fight. Familiar scenes are unexpected or new meaning. Music and video is an important factor in the show and the actors argue pop songs with great professionalism.

Tickets can be purchased at: www.billetten.dk or Phone 7020 2096

Elsinore Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Hamlets Castle Elsinore

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Hamlet the play by William Shakespeare
Hamlet is without question the most famous play in the English language. Probably written in 1601 or 1602, the tragedy is a milestone in Shakespeare’s dramatic development; the playwright achieved artistic maturity in this work through his brilliant depiction of the hero’s struggle with two opposing forces: moral integrity and the need to avenge his father’s murder.

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Visit Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore

New Danish Maritime Museum is planned as a unique building with international ambitions.
The new Maritime Museum will have a unique location in the old dry dock between Culture Yard and Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. The museum will be built down into and along the inside of the 150-meter-long dock, while the dock will be an outdoor space where it is possible to place large parts exhibition and hold various events.
Maritime Museum is a part of the new cultural space in Elsinore, in addition to the museum consists of landscape project Kulturhavn Kronborg Castle Elsinore and new cultural Culture Yard. For more information on cultural Elsinore, see

Visit Øresundsakvariet (saltwater aquarium) in Elsinore

Øresundsakvariet Read more about the saltwater aquarium
Københavns Universitet
Strandpromenaden 5
3000 Helsingør
Openings hour
September-maj
Weekdays 10 - 16. Weekends 10 - 17

Juni-august
Weekdays 10 - 17. Weekends 10 - 17

Welcome to the Sound Aquarium - Denmark's absolutely most charming saltwater aquarium. Øresundsakvariet Aquarium is designed to provide wildlife in the Sound characteristic seabed environments. See the newly renovated biotopakvarier where you come from the shallow water sands are brought out into the deep, over stenbundens fascinating wildlife, to mudderbundens lofty banks of horse mussels, covered with coral and further over Kullen underwater rocks to end the bottom of Helsingør Nordhavn. In other major aquariums you can experience the biggest fish in the Sound and experience the fascinating life of free-floating gopleakvarierne and much more. Always a friendly nature guide present in the aquarium.
Øresundskavariet Elsinore participate with Marine Biological Laboratory in research of the surrounding marine ecology and biodiversity.

Fishing trip

Come along on fishing trips from Elsinore Nordhavn
Sound lures with several fishing boats that sail daily on the fishing trip for cod, flatfish, herring, garfish and mackerel in season. The area's many large lakes can regale pike, perch, pike, eels and predatory fish, for example. Furesø and Bagsværd lake. Trout Salmon can also make fish fever in the Capital Region.
Nordsjælland Elsinore serves up many traditional coastal sites with sea trout, cod, flatfish, mullet and garfish in the season. Several marine fisheries both rallies daily on sport fishing trips in Sound and from Elsinore Nordhavn for cod, flatfish, garfish and mackerel in season.
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Welcome to the Danish Technical Museum Elsinore


The exhibit of H.C. Ørsted Denmark	Valdemar Poulsen's wire recorder from 1898.

The museum has been extended to 8000 square metres exhibit in a former iron foundry from the nineteensixties. In these big halls one will find the development in technology, science and industri. The museum has an impressive collection of steam engines, inventions, electric appliances, bicycles, cars and airplanes. A complete pewter workshop has been built inside the museum and you can also experience how Hans Christian Ørsted in 1820 discovered electromagnetism. In the exhibit on Communication, you will find Valdemar Poulsen’s invention, the Telegraphone, which is the forefarther of modern tape recording.

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Delauney Belleville from 1906. The first automobile at The Royal Danish Court

The aviation department has more than 30 airplanes on exibit, from gyrocopters to helicopters and even a complete Caravelle airliner. Also on exhibit, is an airplane of the 'Danish Edison’, the inventor J.C. Ellehammer, who, in the minds of the Danes, were the first to fly in Europe in 1906, but never internationally recorded as the first European flight. Looking at his flying machine and the rest of the exhibited, planes it is impossible not to marvel at the speed at which the subsequent development took place. You will also find the workshop where a team of volounteers are building an exact replica of the first Danish traffic airplane, the F.F 49C.

The Café offers dinner at reasonable prices, and in addition there will be a special evening event on the program. The menu will vary from time to time.

Danish Technical Museum
Fabriksvej 25,
DK-3000 Helsingør (Elsinore)
Phone +45 4922 2611

Opening hours
Summer (May 1. to September 30.)
Tuesday - Sunday	10 am - 5 pm
June 21. to August 2. the museum is open on Mondays as well (school hollidays), 10 am to 5 pm
Winter (October 1. to April 30.)
Tuesday - Sunday	10 am - 5 pm

The museum is closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve and New Years Day.

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Hamlet and Kronborg

Hamlet 's Castle this summer 2010

Welcome to the Danish Technical Museum Elsinore