This is the fourth in a series of blog posts documenting our 2023 summer holiday: a wonderful road-trip around Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Day 4: July 27, 2023

The Experimentarium

A core memory of mine (to use Inside Out speak) is the one or two occasions spent in the basement of the Science Museum playing with all sorts of amazing interactive exhibits. It’s planted deep in my mind this idea of the Science Museum as a fun and interactive place where you not only see exhibits but touch and feel science as well. Unfortunately, having returned to the Science Museum with both Ezra and Eleanor in more recent times it doesn’t have the same sense of magic¹.

But Copenhagen’s Experimentarium does. Originally something we had intended to cover with the cost of the Copenhagen Card part of our decision to buy the tickets individually was our use of the hire car to travel around Copenhagen and get out to this museum rather than using public transport (parking cost us about £8 for the day). And it was another highlight (every day has been a highlight so is that idea getting devalued?)

For the family it cost us 776 DKK for entry and made me pause to think about how my expectation of some of the most famous British attractions is for them to be free (and full of requests for donations). When I go to the Science Museum or the Natural History Museum it is fantastic to find that they are free of charge (we do have paid for membership of the Natural History Museum). However, charging entrance is obviously a factor in how the Experimentarium to refresh and reimagine and invest in the experience they offer in a way that was refreshing and impressive.

The Experimentarium is everything I want The Science Museum to be.