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The Royal Danish Naval Museum is an experience for both children and adults. On the gun deck in the childrens’ museum there is lots of room for playing. The grown-ups can revel in the historical collection of models dating back to the 17th century. The collections also comprise naval artillery, shop decoration, marine paintings and nautical instruments. Detailed models of battles at sea and the naval dockyards in Copenhagen give an overview of an exciting and substantial part of Danish history. After a cruise in the museum’s submarine children and adults may settle down among the old artillery for a cup of hot chocolate or coffee.

Orlogsmuseet was founded in 1957, which exhibited most of the model collection of Nicholas’s Church in Copenhagen. In the year 1974-84 worked Valdemar Castle on Tasinge as a branch museum. Since 1989 Orlogsmuseet been housed in Kvasthuset Badsmandsstrade Flew in Christianshavn. In 2004, Royal Arsenal Museum and Orlogsmuseet merged under the name “Civil Defense Museum. The two museum exhibitions will be run as independent exhibition housed in this museum.

The museum also comprises exhibitions on later and recent times. On the second floor more can be learned about the Cold War. Sea mines and missiles were arms of the modern war. At the Royal Danish Naval Museum it’s possible to see weapons and ships which would have been used if the Cold War had turned “hot”.