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Bus #2, #8, #9, #19, #28, #350S. Heading north along Strandgade, across Torvegade, you'll pass the massive yellow-brick eyesore of the Danish Foreign Ministry before reaching the Danish Architecture Centre (Dansk Arkitektur Center; Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am-4pm; 30kr; www.gammeldok.dk ) at Gammel Dok. Housed in one of the oldest warehouses on Christianshavn, this beautifully renovated building is devoted to fascinating exhibitions concentrating on architectural design and urban culture. There's also a popular cafe from which you can watch boats pass by on the canal outside, and the bookshop stocks Denmark's largest selection of titles on architecture and design. Continuing along Strandgade you cross over onto another small island to reach Grønlands Handelsplads . This is where ships from Denmark's old colonies in the North Atlantic - Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands - used to dock, and where dried fish, whale oil and skins were stored or treated in the area's many enormous warehouses before being sold off to the rest of Europe. Although the magnificent warehouses were turned into offices in the early 1980s, they are still redolent of history - you can still detect a faint odour of fish. The Grønlandsk-Islandsk Pakhus warehouse is currently being transformed into a North Atlantic Cultural Centre (Nordatlantisk Center) featuring North Atlantic exhibitions, a cafe serving delicacies from the region, and diplomatic representations from the three countries - always useful to know if you need a visa for Greenland.
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