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Astronomical sights in and around Copenhagen.

Apart from the Round Tower Observatory there are other sights worth seeing.
Here is a list:

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Geological Museum
Øster Voldgade 5-7
Copenhagen
Phone: +45 35 32 23 45
Big collection of meteorites.
Free admittance.
Opening hours:
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 13.00 to 16.00

Jens Olsens astronomical clock.
Town Hall
Phone: +45 33 66 25
One of the most complicated astronomical clocks ever made. You can, among other things, find local time, solar time, the time for sunrise and sunset, the Gregorian calendar, the Julian period, the sky, the precession of the equinoxes, the geocentric and heliocentric appearance of the solar system...
Opening hours:
Monday - Friday 10.00 to 16.00
Saturday 10.00 to 13.00

Tycho Brahe Planetarium
Gl. Kongevej 10
Copenhagen V
Phone: +45 33 12 12 24
A Planetarium and Omnimax theatre.
There is a permanent astronomy and space exhibition.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Sunday 10.30 to 21.00

Kroppedal Museum of Astronomy . Nyere tid .Arkæologi
Kroppendals Allé 3
Taastrup
Phone: +45 43303006
Ole Rømer's life and work, nearby the site where Rømer had his Countryside Observatory.
The museum exhibit many old astronomical instruments.
Admission free.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Thursday 9.00 to 16.00
Friday 9.00 to 15.00
Saturday, Sunday and holidays 14.00 to 17.00

The Trade and Navigation Museum on Kronborg.
(The castle of Hamlet, according to Shakespeare.)
Helsingør
Phone: +45 49 21 06 85
Exhibition of instruments for astronomical navigation.
Opening hours:
May - September
every day 10.30 to 17.00
April - October
11.00 to 16.00 except Monday
November - March
11.00 to 15.00 except Monday

Hven (Sweden)
By boat (approx. 30 min) from Copenhagen (Havnegade) you find the island of Tycho.
In the center of the beautiful island you can see the place where astronomy started as a science. The small museum is open 10.00 to 12.30 and 13.00 to 16.30 from June to August.
For more information call:
Bethina Söderqvist
Kulturförvaltningen
Slotsgatan
Landskrona, Sweden.
Phone: +46 41 87 95 57
Sights outside Copenhagen.
 Orion Planetarium
Søvej 36
6630 Rødding
Phone: +45 74 55 24 00
Opening hours:
Sep. 1 to Jun. 15 from 12.00 to 18.00 except Monday.
Jun. 16 to Aug. 30 from 10.00 to 18.00

The Planet path in Lemvig.
Vestergade
Lemvig
A 12 km walk through the Solar system in scale 1:1000000000, along the path you find the planets in the right scale.
Open 24 hours and 365¼ days every year.
Information and exhibition about the planet path:
Lemvig Museum
Vestergade 44
7620-Lemvig
Phone: +45 97 82 34 64

Steno Museum
C. F. Møllers Allé
Park of the University, building 100
8000-Århus C
Phone: +45 89 42 39 75
The Museum has exhibitions about the history of science and medicine . It also has a small planetarium.
Opening hours:
Sep. to Jun. from 10.00 to 16.00
Jul. to Aug. from 10.00 to 17.00
Okt. to Apr. closed on Mondays.

Hauchs Physiske Cabinet
4180 Sorø, Denmark
The Hauchs Physiske Cabinet is a collection of physics instruments. It was Founded by Adam Wilhelm Hauch in the end of the 18th century. The collection is one of the 3 best and biggest collections of historical physics instruments.
Phone: 0045+ 57 82 13 35