Other attractions
Flynderupgård Museet
Set in a classic 1830 country house, surrounded by a beautiful rose garden recreated from it's 1920s layout. The Museums main building houses permanent exhibits of a grocery store from last century as well as a typical area farmhouse, The fields around the museum is home of a farming operation using tools and animals from the same period, and there is also an exhibit on local fishing in the early 1800's. Best suited for families.
Danmarks Tekniske Museum
Housed in a 8000 square metre former iron foundry, within its walls is a large collection of steam engines, cars, airplanes and other inventions with particular emphasis on Danish achievements in science and industry like the 1888 Hammel car which, as far as is known, is the oldest original automobile still running, the world's first typewriter and the world's first electromagnetic sound recorder. In the impressive aviation collection which counts a number of complete historic aeroplanes, is also the plane of Ellehammer, which according to the Danes, where the first to take flight on the continent. Many exhibits can be run or operated by inserting a coin.
While most of the Hamlet hungry crowds head straight for the castle, the old city centre north-west of the station surrounding the church, is well worth a visit in itself. The enormous wealth that flowed through the city in the old days, is highly visible with many grand, often colorful, old houses flanking the narrow streets, a few them has preserved the old cobblestone pavement. The lively harbour can also be worth a look if you need to kill some time.
kronborg castle
Kronborg 2, 3000 Helsingør Most people walk the 15 minutes north along the harbour from the station, â +45 49 21 30 78 [email protected], . November-March 11AM-3PM; April, October 11AM-4PM; May-September 10:30AM-5PM. A combined ticket is 95 Kr. 56.039056,12.621709
Holger Danske
Originally build by King Eric of Pomerania in the 1420's at the narrowest point of the Ãresund strait, it was originally called Krogen or the hook in English. Kronborg attained it's current name when it was rebuild by King Frederik II into a grand renaissance palace, unrivaled anywhere in Europe. All but the exterior walls where destroyed in a fire during the 17th century, it was rebuild in only 10 years, but the interiors never attained their former glory. Only 20 years later, another disaster struck the castle, when Swedish troops bombarded and conquered Kronborg, taking with them many priceless treasures as spoils of war, many of them now on display in various Swedish museums. Following the Swedish conquest, demonstrating it's reputation as impregnable was all but a myth, the Danish king ordered the defenses strengthened, with a new advanced line of defense and ramparts around the castle, to keep the myth alive. Subsequently the castle was used as a prison, until the army took and used the castle as barracks until the 1920s. It was finally opened to the public in 1935 following nearly 10 years of renovations. In 2000 Kronborg was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, citing Kronborg as "an outstanding example of the Renaissance castle, and one which played a highly significant role in the history of northern Europe."
Within the castle there is access to the royal chambers, the casemates with the statue of Holger Danske, the chapel and an exhibition about Shakespeare