Elsinore and the Maritime Museum

Elsinore and the Maritime Museum

Elsinore—which the Danes know as Helsingør—is famous for Kronborg Castle, the setting for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. There are other reasons to make the 50-kilometer (31-mile) trip north from Copenhagen, however. The Maritime Museum (Ny Kronborgvej 1), designed by the country’s most famous architecture firm, BIG, is a remarkable building set into an abandoned dry dock—you'll pass above it on your way to the castle. Also, on the harbor stands Han, a polished steel sculpture of a boy on a rock, designed to complement the Little Mermaid statue.