Danish museum celebrates Copenhagen bicycle culture with historic exhibition

Cycling is one of Copenhagen’s most popular forms of transportation with thirty-six percent of Copenhageners travelling to work or school by bicycle every day. The city has even made it possible for tourists and visitors to do the same via City Bikes. City Bikes is a free transport service available to all visitors and residents, and is made up of 2000 bikes in over 100 cycle ‘stations’ across the city centre.

In celebration of Copenhagen’s bicycle culture, the Museum of Copenhagen is currently hosting an exhibition that follows the history of the city’s cycling traditions from the Draisine to the modern bicycle. The exhibition explores the biking habits of Copenhageners throughout the ages and focuses on the representation of bicycles in art, literature and popular music. The exhibition also contains a number of personal tales of cycling and the city from known and unknown contemporary Copenhageners. Prominent local inventions such as the Long John or Christiania bikes are also on show.

Copenhagen’s enthusiasm for cycling has also earned the city the title of ‘Bike City’, the first in the world, as chosen by the International Cycling Union (UCI). Bike City Copenhagen (BCC) began in 2008 and continues on into 2011 consisting of numerous races and cycling events with some allowing amateur participation. Here are some of the events already scheduled: Track World Cup in Ballerup Super Arena: 24 – 28 March 2010 and the Road Cycling World Championships (Rudersdal-Copenhagen) 21 – 25 September 2011.

However, every cyclist needs to rest so Copenhagen also hosts a vast selection of luxurious hotels that are well-located and have great facilities. Many of the hotels are very accommodating with friendly staff from all over the world that are always happy to assist with any queries. Most of the rooms are equipped with air conditioning, a mini bar, and some hotels even offer a 24-hour convenience store for ease and availability. As well as all this, for all the cyclists the city provides 110 bike-racks, 1 bicycle repairshop for the city bikes, and 4 mobile city bike-repairshops – for reparations on the spot.

For more information on accommodation and hotels in Copenhagen visit www.hotelsincopenhagen.dk