Louisiana Museum of Modern Art from Copenhagen: the train to Humlebæk, DKK 145 tickets, Monday closing and late nights

💡 The Short Version: Louisiana is DKK 145, with no booking or time slot. It is closed on Mondays and open until 22:00 Tuesday to Friday, 11:00 to 18:00 at weekends. Humlebæk station is about 40 minutes from Copenhagen Central Station, with several trains an hour, then a 10 to 15 minute walk. The ticket covers the café, the shop and the sculpture park too, and under-18s are free. Free with the Copenhagen Card Discover. Kronborg is 10 minutes further up the line: do Kronborg first in winter, because it shuts at 16:00. There is no public tour of Louisiana to book: it is a train day.

Tickets and prices

Buy at the museum or at louisiana.dk. An online ticket is valid for one use within a year, on any opening day.

A ticket is needed even for the café, the shop and the sculpture park. Passengers on the Öresundslinjen ferry from Helsingborg to Helsingør, and on the Molslinjen and Bornholmslinjen ferries, get 20% off. The museum says these are the only discounts that apply, and that AI-generated answers invent others.

What to see

Louisiana opened in 1958 round an old villa on the Øresund coast and has grown in seven stages, all by the architects Bo and Wohlert. The wings now join in a roughly circular route, so you end near where you began.

The villa and a museum wing at Louisiana. Photo: Hanlu Cao, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

• The exhibitions. Tracey Emin runs from 8 October 2026 to 18 April 2027. Remedios Varo runs from 18 September 2026 to 10 January 2027, and 700 Nimes Road, Catherine Opie’s photographs from Elizabeth Taylor’s house, to 10 January 2027.
• The collection. About 4,000 works from 1945 onwards, shown in rotating selections. Almost always on view are the Giacometti Gallery, the Asger Jorn Gallery and Yayoi Kusama’s installation Gleaming Lights of the Souls, which is open only when the South Wing is.
• The sculpture park. About 50 sculptures on the slope to the Sound, with works by Henry Moore, Alexander Calder and Henry Heerup, and Richard Serra’s The Gate in the Gorge. It is open to museum guests only.
• The Children’s Wing. Three storeys of workshops, open Tuesday to Sunday 11:00 to 18:00, with the workshops closing at 17:30.
• The café. A panoramic view of the Sound and Calder’s sculptures on the terrace. It opens at 11:00 Tuesday to Sunday, with lunch from 12:00 to 16:00 and dinner from 17:30 to 21:00.

The pier on the Øresund below Louisiana. Photo: Jamie Hamilton, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Start with the exhibition you came for, then the Giacometti and Jorn galleries, and go out to the park while it is light. The museum has a mobile guide to the architecture and the park’s sculptures, and an overview folder at the entrance.

Getting there

• Train: DSB’s coast line (Kystbanen) runs from Copenhagen Central Station to Humlebæk in about 40 minutes, with several direct trains an hour. Get off at Humlebæk, where a red-brick sculpture by Per Kirkeby stands at the station, and walk 10 to 15 minutes to Gl. Strandvej 13.
• Fares: the Rejsebillet app shows the fare when you search. A City Pass Large (zones 1 to 99) is DKK 200 for 24 hours. A Rejsekort fare is cheaper at off-peak times: weekdays 11:00 to 13:00 and after 18:00, and at weekends and on public holidays.
• Bus: line 388 stops at Humlebæk Strandvej/Louisiana, from Lyngby station via Klampenborg and from Helsingør station.
• Bikes: a bicycle ticket is needed on the train. Bikes can be hired in Humlebæk Centre, by the station, and parked near the museum entrance.
• Car: 35 km north of Copenhagen by the E47/E55 or the Strandvejen coast road, with four electric-car charging points outside the museum.
• Timetable change: DSB changes its timetable on 13 December 2026, so the times here are for the timetable to 12 December.

Louisiana and Kronborg in one day

Humlebæk is 10 minutes before Helsingør, so one ticket on the same line reaches both. The sums, with a City Pass Large:

The Copenhagen Card Discover is DKK 589 for 24 hours, so the card does not pay for this pair. Go to Kronborg first from November: it shuts at 16:00 and on Mondays, while Louisiana stays open until 22:00 on weekdays and 18:00 at weekends.

Hours

Christmas 2026: Wednesday 23 December 11:00 to 18:00; closed 24 and 25 December; Saturday 26 to Monday 28 December 11:00 to 18:00; Tuesday 29 December 11:00 to 22:00; Wednesday 30 December 11:00 to 18:00; closed 31 December and 1 January 2027.

The thing that ruins a visit is the Monday. From 1 November neither Louisiana nor Kronborg is open on a Monday, so pick Tuesday to Sunday. Day trips from Copenhagen compares Louisiana with the other trips, Best museums in Copenhagen covers the city’s own, and Copenhagen Card: is it worth it? has the sums for a card day. Copenhagen public transport explains the zones and the fine for travelling without a ticket.