Cultural Center Assistens

At Nørrebro, 15 minutes’ drive from Copenhagen city center, you will find Cultural Center Assistens and in the graveyard here you can see Hans Christian Andersen`s and Søren Kierkegaard`s last resting places.

This area of Nørrebro is a combined museum, park, and graveyard. Here you will have the opportunity to have insights the cultural history of the city.  It is a set of museums, parks, and cemeteries as one of the cultural sites. 

Assistens cemetery was built in 1760 more than 200 years ago and is still in use today. More than more than 300.000 people are buried here, and many of them have been celebrities in Denmark like the physicist Niels Bohr

Join one of the guided tours, which are held in both Danish and English.

 

Information

Kapelvej 4
2200 København N
Copenhagen, Capital Region
Denmark
Web
assistens.dk


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  • Lattitude: 55.6883894
  • Longitude: 12.5527761