Winter break for super kids
This winter break, Royal Danish Library is filled with creativity, imagination and little superheroes. Come and make your own colorful capes in our creative workshop.
At Royal Danish Library, we believe that all children have superpowers. That's why we're helping you during the winter break to find your talents – big and small. Maybe you're good at gymnastics, math or drawing? Or maybe you're a really good friend? Everyone is good at something, you just have to find out what.
Come and join us for a holiday filled with imagination, creativity and exploration of your own abilities.
Creative workshop – Make a super cape
In the creative workshop you can design your own capes. Together we will explore how to decorate them so that they reflect your unique superpowers and show what each of you is good at.
Stories about super children
Join us on a journey of discovery among history's super children in colorful children's books. In our reading corner you will find books about children who practiced, persevered – and eventually found their very special talents. They could neither fly nor lift cars, but they mastered something else: telling amazing stories, painting breathtaking pictures, composing magical words and creating things no one had previously imagined.
The stories are about, for example, Tycho Brahe, Anna Ancher, and Karen Blixen, and how they ended up being known and remembered for their great discoveries and special talents. You will also encounter stories about children who may seem more ordinary, but who remind us that everyone has something valuable to contribute.
Taxes from super children and super adults
Also visit the library's Treasure Exhibition, where you can see books and drawings made by the super children, about whom you can read stories in the reading corner. See, among other things, Tycho Brahe's fantastic globes and Karen Blixen's drawings and writings. In the Treasure Exhibition, you can also go on an expedition with treasure maps and a flashlight and examine the many historical and fascinating works.
Read more about the Tax Expedition
Creative workshop – make your own costume
We have been in the library's huge photo collection and found photos from the old days of people in fun and beautiful costumes. We are going to take a closer look at them and make our own costumes. During the winter holidays you can make your own mask. We have found marbled paper, luxury paper, glitter and colours so that you can give your mask its very own expression.
Imaginative costumes – dress up
In The Children's Library we have a brand new costume corner. Here you can dress up in fun and beautiful hats, and you can wrap yourself in beautiful capes with gold embroidery.
The little special library
In our small library you will find books that you have probably not seen before. These are old children's books from when your parents and grandparents were children, and new children's books with beautiful and different illustrations. You can also browse through a beautiful hand-bound edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, which was made especially for The Children's Library by bookbinders from Royal Danish Library.
Experience the house and the exhibitions
Would you like to experience the house or the library's exhibitions? You can, among other things, go on The Great Diamond Hunt, which takes you on an adventure in the library's buildings, or you can explore the Library Garden with the material The Secret Garden. Also visit the exhibition Treasures, where you can go onskatte among some of the library's most valuable works. Of course, you can also visit our photo exhibitions in the basement and experience beautiful and fascinating photographs from the collections. See all current exhibitions.
Practical Information
Free admission for all children and their adults to the winter break event. The activities are primarily aimed at children aged 4-11, but all children are welcome.
The event will take place in the Panorama Hall on the 4th floor. Follow the signs through the building or ask the staff in the store for directions. Open Monday-Friday 10am-4pm in week 7.
Food and drinks can be purchased at The Black Diamond's café. Food brought in can be enjoyed at selected locations in the library.