Huge new £200m underground attraction to open in Europe after SEVENTEEN years – with 3D scanning experience & dinosaurs

A HUGE new underground attraction will open next year in a popular European city with immersive experiences and thousands of fossils. The new Natural History Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark will open on March 6, 2027 after a huge project. A new underground attraction is opening next year in Copenhagen Credit: Torben Eskerod/ © Natural History Museum Denmark It will be formed of eight galleries at the Natural History Museum Credit: The Natural History Museum Copenhagen The biggest part of the £200million project is eight new galleries all underground. The eight new exhibitions will be Universe, Earth, Life, Denmark, Arctic, Biodiversity, Humans, and Ocean Hall. Sign up for the Travel newsletter Thank you! Light gets to the underground galleries through skylights and is designed to “engage all the senses”, according to the architect Lene Tranberg. The new museum will connect the Botanical Garden – which sits above the galleries – the historic buildings and the new architecture. Read more on travel inspo Inside the underground galleries, visitors can expect a concrete interior with curved staircases. The museum is home to 14million items which have been collected over 400 years, such as fossils. Included in the collection are a number of dinosaurs including a 17-metre-long Diplodocus skeleton and T-Rex skeletons. Visitors can also try out interactive touchscreen tables where you can rotate and zoom in on 3D scans of specimens. Most read in Travel The entire museum is home to thousands of different specimens Credit: The Natural History Museum Copenhagen Each gallery will have its own theme as well Credit: The Natural History Museum Copenhagen The building will feature a lot of concrete inside Credit: Torben Eskerod/ © Natural History Museum Denmark And visitors will be able to see dinosaur skeletons as well as 3D scans of specimens Credit: Torben Eskerod/ © Natural History Museum Denmark Plans for the new part of the museum were first revealed 17 years ago with building works starting back in 2019. The original targeted opening date was in 2014, however this was delayed due to planning permissions and funding issues. Christine Wiberg-Lyng, Foundation Director, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond said: “The new buildings create a sensory and inviting setting that supports the museum’s core purpose.” In the Botanical Garden, you will find a living museum with 13,000 plant species, alpine rock gardens and walking trails. There’s then also the Palm House and Butterfly House which is inside a Victorian cast-iron glasshouse built in 1874. Tickets to the Botanical Garden are free and tickets to the museum cost £13.22 per adult and £5.75 per child aged between three and 17-years-old. Comment now