Ripley's Believe It or Not! — Attraction in Copenhagen Municipality

I have been wanting to write this review for a few months now as we came at the tail end of last year, but having had some illness in the family and then all the chaos with COVID-19 I never got the time. However here it goes! I am a huge fan of Ripley's and the man himself... so much so that we named our first son Ripley - hopefully he will follow his name sake and grow to love diversity and culture - something which every Ripley's attraction is built on. This particular one is no different! It's well laid out, clean, accessible (which is something which can be hard to find in this old city), family friendly and just all around awesome! For me the most fun thing we did in the city before heading off for a cruise. It's not a huge museum and even by Ripley's standards I think is on the smaller side, but you can still happily spend an hour here just on the exhibits and then there are some nice interactive bits too. Having been to so many Ripley's we don't always look at every item as some are similar between museums, but this one had some really nice unique items we hadn't seen before, and we will make this a stop every time we come to the city! We actually came here for our sons first birthday and they were kind enough to give him a book. He actually has an annual from his actual birth and his first birthday now, so we hope to keep up the tradition and buy him one each year. Super nice people and look forward to coming again... Don't miss this gem and it's associated...

Skip it, especially with the kids, and try the Planetarium or just a walk instead. We went because we had a free entrance with CPH Card and while we went through in less than 10 minutes it was still not worth it. It was not very clear why certain things were there at all (painting made with nail polish or a pretend voodoo doll), some things were labeled as not true and others not, while also were clearly untrue. Some other disturbing stuff that we struggles to explain to the kids - a piece about a short person and how he was successful none-the-less. The implication that having genetic diseases make you somehow a circus show were just bad. And to top it all there was a torture chamber room with gory stuff and screams as a background that we had to just run through. 2 stars because the one staff person upfront was polite. The H. C. Anderson museum is there is well but we were so uneasy about the Ripley one that we just left and didn’t do...

Bought the Fun Pass for all four museums (Guinness, Exploratorium, Ripley's & HC Andersen) on a rainy day. Guinness was OK, but worn and dated, and my bag got stuck in the revolving door for the Exploratorium, so I couldn't get in. Didn't feel like I'd miss much so didn't mind. However, going to Ripley's on a sunny day was a complete bummer. Lots of records were repeated from Guinness, even same plastic sculptures. Not so hard to believe a decent artist can paint a nice portrait in nail polish. And the "C4n y0u r34d th1s" posters are all over Facebook for free. By the end of Ripley's I was so dizzy from the lights and sounds, I was afraid of passing out if I went through another museum, so skipped the HC Andersen. Too dizzy to think about asking for a refund too, which I probably should have. Spent a week in Copenhagen and this was by far the most...