Voted Europe's Best Museum in 2026, Denmark's Den Gamle By offers one of the most original historical experiences imaginable, immersing visitors in 400 years of history through faithfully ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Europe's only ruling female monarch surpassed King Christian IV, who ruled from 1596 to 1648 CLAUS FISKER/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Queen Margrethe of Denmark reached a major milestone this month.

A harrowing chapter in Danish history occurred in 1945 after the German occupation of Denmark. Two thousand German prisoners of war, all teenagers, were forced to clear a beach of 1.5 million ...

Hunting and fishing is an important part of Greenlandic culture. (Photo by Mads Pihl/Visit Greenland) (CN) — “When the Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede went ashore in Greenland in 1721, it was ...

Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival returned this month after two pandemic-disrupted editions with an accomplished crop of urgent and highly-political competition titles. On opening night, there was Abbe ...