Denmark's national HIV and AIDS organisation has its headquarters at Vestergade 18E in central Copenhagen, a few minutes from Radhuspladsen. Founded in 1987, AIDS-Fondet works with prevention, advocacy and support for people living with HIV, and the Vestergade address also houses Checkpoint, its community clinic offering free, anonymous testing and counselling for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections on walk-in and appointment basis. The premises are primarily offices and clinic space r.....

Mozarts Plads in Copenhagen's Sydhavn spent years as little more than a fenced-off metro construction site; when the square finally reopened with its own station on the M4 line, ANKER opened at its edge and quickly settled into the rhythm of the neighbourhood. The cafe serves coffee, beer and sandwiches from morning until evening - some days as late as 8 pm - with the metro delivering visitors practically to the door. Reviewers have praised it as a place that feels like an extension of the old,.....

From the street it looks like any other classic Copenhagen shopfront, but behind the window on the corner of Stormgade and H.C. Andersens Boulevard archaeologists sit sorting, washing and registering finds dug up from beneath the city's streets. The Archaeological Workshop (Arkaeologisk Vaerksted) is a working facility of the Museum of Copenhagen, opened in 2017 on the back of the huge public interest in archaeology generated by the metro excavations. On selected open days - typically during sc.....

Taxidermied animals in fancy dress stare down from the walls of Bankeraat: deer heads on human mannequin bodies, doll-head lamps and candlelit corners have made this corner cafe in the Nansensgade quarter one of Copenhagen's most photographed interiors. Opened in 1992 (some sources date the founding to 1989), it styles itself the city's original bohemian cafe and reshaped local cafe culture as a home for students, artists, musicians, night owls and neighbourhood regulars. By day it is a classic.....

With more than 1,000 beds upstairs, the bar of Danhostel Copenhagen City never lacks company. BAR50 occupies the ground floor of the high-rise hostel on H.C. Andersens Boulevard by Langebro bridge, and works in shifts: breakfast room in the morning, cafe through the day with coffee, cakes and snacks, and from evening a proper bar pouring draught beer, bottled specials, cocktails and wine with a view over the harbour canal. The design-hostel setting - Gubi furniture and Bestlite lamps run throug.....

A former boiler room in a Vesterbro backyard, next door to the Vega concert houses, is the raw shell for one of Copenhagen's most distinctive small venues. Basement, run by the City of Copenhagen's culture unit Byliv Vesterbro, keeps the space deliberately unpolished - bare walls, high ceilings and what its own team calls a rough, unique frame without Danish comparison - and fills it with an experimental programme where literature, performance art, concerts and the electronic underground meet. .....

Several rival markets now trade on the great open field of Bellahojmarken in Copenhagen's Bronshoj district, and the name Bellahoj Kraemmermarked has a tangled history among them. The original flea-and-traders market was launched by local volunteers in September 1991, dreamed up in the neighbourhood council and run to raise money for local sports clubs' youth work; it was an instant success, mixing hundreds of traders' stalls with live music across all styles, and it still runs every year in ear.....

Bronshoj got a new gathering point when BROK opened its doors by Bronshoj Torv - a municipal culture house at Bronshojvej 3 run by the City of Copenhagen's culture and leisure administration, replacing the neighbourhood's long-serving Kulturhuset Pilegaarden. The name and the motto - "we are together about BROK" - signal the ambition: culture created with the locals, not just served to them, across generations. The house programme mixes concerts, theatre, talks, workshops, flea markets, childre.....

Jazz has largely replaced the organ at Brorsons Kirke, the church on a triangular plot between Rantzausgade and Jesper Brochmands Gade in Copenhagen's Norrebro district. Consecrated at Epiphany 1901 and designed by Thorvald Jorgensen - later the architect of Christiansborg Palace - the church is named after the hymn writer and bishop H.A. Brorson, and was financed by the Copenhagen Church Fund together with a famous "two-ore collection" among Inner Mission supporters that earned it the nickname .....

Copenhagen's Latin American culture house occupies a modest building on Hoffdingsvej in Valby with an unusual back-story: for over two decades it belonged to the Canary Islands association, founded by immigrant workers who arrived in the 1960s. As the members aged and their Spanish government subsidy disappeared in the financial crisis, they handed the house on - in December 2012 the building was transferred for a token 70,000 kroner, and after a few weeks of volunteer renovation, Casa Latinoame.....