For kids

Art is fun – for children too! That's why, from 11 October 2025, ARKEN will be opening its doors to early risers at 9 a.m. every weekend. Experience lots of fun with art when ARKEN KIDS takes over the museum on the children's terms. Get the adults to watch your shoes while you jump in the giant bouncy castles created by artist Esben Weile Kjær or take a “swim” in POOL. They can also help carry the equipment case on the ARTstronaut expedition in the sculpture park. Take them to the exhibitions, where you can paint in Frederiks Næblerød's Atelier or spot mysterious creatures in Marguerite Humeau - Torches. Adults who are tired in the morning can have a cup of coffee and a bun in the museum's indoor “garden”. ARKEN KIDS is open every Saturday and Sunday, as well as during all school holidays, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

Explore Marguerite Humeau's exhibition Torches, where you will encounter mysterious creatures and strange formations from the world and a time that is both known and unknown. Possible scenarios for future life forms and communities are presented. Inspired by Humeau's marvellous universe, you can invent a whole new species - perhaps a future mutation - of nature, human and tech parts. And a little bit of magic!

The workshop is open every day and is free to attend with admission to the museum. On Saturday and Sunday, an art host will be present from 11:00-16:00 to help with the creations. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Children can now get their own ARKEN KIDS annual pass. With this annual pass, the child can bring an adult of their choice for free for a whole year. Among other things, you can experience ARKEN KIDS – the children's takeover of the museum – every weekend from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and during all school holidays. An ARKEN KIDS card costs DKK 395 and gives free admission for one adult per visit with the cardholder in tow. Membership can only be purchased at the museum.

Frederik Næblerød has moved his studio into the museum - with art materials, sofas, music and plants. Here you are invited to work in the studio at the audience tables and the audience wall, where there is paper and materials. Take a walk through Næblerød's exhibition All Walks of Life and find inspiration to try out artistic processes and techniques in the studio afterwards.

Pssst, Frederik Næblerød will be working occasionally in the studio, so you might be lucky enough to experience and feel the energy, with which he creates his works.

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If you need a break from art, take a sensory bath in Pool, which is a different and fun way into art for children and the young at heart. Take off your shoes and throw yourself into the balls in the colourful universe. You might lose your bearings for a while but give in and discover the world from new angles.

Is it acceptable to use profanity if it is printed on a sweater? Inspired by Kenneth Rasmussen's enormous knitted sculptures made from plastic bags and his linoleum prints filled with characters and statements that are straightforward, we invite museum visitors – both young and old – to engage in free knitting. One of our friendly volunteer knitting hosts will be on hand to help you get started. You can also try knitting in plastic bags like the artist. If you already know how to knit, you might want to try your hand at a motif from the exhibition. For example, you could embroider 'Goddammit' on your next warm jumper, if you're allowed to swear on your clothes, that is? Everyone can participate – children and adults, beginners and master knitters. Come and “knit your heart out” at the Kenneth Rasmussen exhibition every weekend from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. i 2025. Participation is free with admission to the museum. No registration is required.

Here you can download the pattern diagram for For helvede mand (Goddammit) and Kenneth Rasmussen's recognisable little bird and knit it at home:

FOR HELVEDE MAND

BIRD

Take the family on an ARTstronaut tour in the Sculpture Park. We'll pretend that ARKEN is our spaceship that has landed on ‘The Mysterious Art Planet’, where you can explore all the mysterious sculptures with all your senses.

You can borrow a free ARTstronaut kit in the museum shop. The tour takes about half an hour and must be accompanied by an adult. At the end of the tour, return the kit and get your own ARTstronaut sticker.

Take a family swing ride and fly high into the sky on SUPERFLEX' One, Two, Three, Swing! Feel how the swings transform into a human pendulum where the energy is exchanged for a shared movement. Swings are usually designed for one person, but here you can sit three people and swing up and down together.

The installation with the large connected swings was first shown in the large turbine hall at Tate Modern in 2017.

THIRD SPACE is ARKEN's new meeting place and cultural community for and by young people, where they can meet, create and participate in activities such as concerts, workshops and performances - or hang out and find new communities. THIRD SPACE is created by artist Henrik Plenge Jakobsen in collaboration with local young people. Take a trip to the sculpture park and experience the work - feel the raw concrete under your feet, crawl into the large pipes or imagine the work as a large stage you can perform on.

Combine your visit to the museum with a walk in the fresh air in the Sculpture Park around the museum or down to the beach. Can you find the rocking horse, the prehistoric dagger tails or the house with the floating floor? Some sculptures might make you look at your surroundings with new eyes, others invite you to play. There are sculptures that you can crawl on or rest on, move into or reflect in.

You can borrow a trolley from the shop so that the little ones can come along too.