Helsingør City Museum

Helsingør City Museum is a local history museum in Helsingør Denmark. The 16th-century building in which it is based is known as the Cammelite House although the Carmelite brothers from the adjacent Priory of Our Lady have in fact only built a minor part of the build.

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Opening hours: 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
Type: Museum
Description: building in Denmark

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. Olaf’s Church, Helsingør and Sankt Mariæ Kirke.

St. Olaf’s Church, Helsingør

Church

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Saint Olaf's Church is the cathedral church of Helsingør in the north of Zealand, Denmark. With a history going back to around 1200, the present building was completed in 1559. St. Olaf’s Church, Helsingør is situated 120 metres southeast of Helsingør City Museum.

Sankt Mariæ Kirke

Church

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Sankt Mariæ Kirke is a church.

Lightvessel Gedser Rev

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Lightvessel No. XVII Gedser Rev is a decommissioned lightvessel built in 1895, now serving as a museum ship in Helsingør, Denmark, having formerly been stationed in the Nyhavn Canal in Copenhagen. Lightvessel Gedser Rev is situated 250 metres northeast of Helsingør City Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kingo Houses and Snekkersten.

Kingo Houses

Neighborhood

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Kingo Houses is a housing development designed by architect Jørn Utzon in Helsingør, Denmark. The development consists of 60 L-shaped houses based upon the design of traditional Danish farmhouses with central courtyards and those of Chinese and Islamic dwellings.

Snekkersten

Village

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Snekkersten is a former fishing village and current neighbourhood in the southern part of Helsingør, Denmark. Snekkersten station is an interchange between the Coast Line between Copenhagen and the Lille Nord railway to Hillerød. Snekkersten is situated 3½ km southwest of Helsingør City Museum.

Skotterup

Hamlet

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Skotterup is a former village and current neighbourhood located in the southern part of Helsingør, Denmark. It is located between Snekkersten to the north and Espergærde to the south and belongs to Snekkersten postal district. Skotterup is situated 5 km southwest of Helsingør City Museum.

Helsingør City Museum

Categories: cultural history museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Elsinore, Capital Region, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude

56.03642° or 56° 2′ 11″ north

Longitude

12.61258° or 12° 36′ 45″ east

Open location code

9F8J2JP7+H2

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3136804445

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q12316167

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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Helsingør City Museum” goes by many names.

Danish: “Helsingør Bymuseum”
Danish: “Karmeliterhuset”
Swedish: “Helsingør Bymuseum”

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