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19. December 2025

Historical Person Register designated as new national research infrastructure and awarded almost DKK 16 million

The Ministry of Higher Education and Science has published the new national roadmap for research infrastructure, which is expected to make a significant contribution to research across disciplines. The Historical Person Register (HisPeR) has been selected and will receive funding of almost DKK 16 million.

12. December 2025

Vaccines and health data at the Danish National Archives

Danes have been vaccinated since 1810, and the Danish National Archives documents this entire development. From handwritten records to digital registries, the latest vaccination data has just been submitted.

13. November 2025

Municipal elections make their way to the Danish National Archives

When Danes cast their ballots for the municipal and regional elections on November 18, the election results will make their way to the Danish National Archives.

7. November 2025

Klimamatch: And the winner is…

Since August, around 6,050 students from grades 7–10 have used the app Klimamatch (Climate Match) to verify over 1.6 million historical weather data points from ship’s logs from the Danish National Archives

5. September 2025

Klimamatch: From the classroom to climate data

More than 250 school classes are participating in Klimamatch and have already entered over 600,000 historical weather observations, helping researchers understand climate change.

13. June 2025

Visit exhibition on the Danish Parliament during the Occupation

A new outdoor exhibition in Rigsdagsgården featuring documents from The Danish National Archives highlights the Danish Parliament during the Nazi German Occupation

3. June 2025

Summer opening hours at the Danish National Archives

The Danish National Archives have different opening hours during the summer. Find out how the reading rooms and interlibrary loans will operate over the summer of 2025.

17. March 2025

Blurred Annotations in Church Records

To protect personal data about individual's private matters, the Danish National Archives has found it necessary to blur the columns with annotations in the church records’ birth registrations as they are displayed online

30. October 2024

New comprehensive platform to search the collections

A new search platform makes it easier for you to find archival records, data, and transcriptions across the Danish National Archives' collections. Learn about the new 'Search the Collections' feature.

30. August 2024

New path to sources on the Danish West Indies

The website virgin-island-history.org will close in November. Instead, we are launching new ways to access sources on the Danish West Indies, so you can continue to explore 250 years of colonial history from the U.S. Virgin Islands.