Hunting for Gilded Books and Yellowed Documents. Stories from the Archive's Collections

This guided tour takes you down into the archive basement beneath City Hall - an area normally closed to the public. Here are preserved sources of the city's history, both personal and official, from the 1500s to the 1900s.

Archivist and ethnologist Anders Møller guides you through the collections and brings to light stories hidden in gilded books and yellowed papers - documents that together paint a picture of Copenhagen's past.