The Natural History Museum, located in University Park, is the second largest museum of this type in Denmark. The museum’s exhibitions include The Coral Sea, Danish Landscapes, Danish Animals and The African Savannah. It is open daily.

The Steno Museum was named after Nicolas Steno, a Danish specialist in anatomy and geology. It is dedicated to science and medicine. The museum includes a planetarium and an herb garden. It is open every day except Mondays.

The Women's Museum is dedicated to the lives and work of women in Danish culture. It houses temporary and permanent exhibits pertaining to the history of feminism in Denmark.

The Viking Museum, located beneath the Nordea bank building, is built upon the site of an archaeological excavation of Viking Age artifacts. The museum provides information regarding the history of the Vikings, as well as replicas of items on display at the Moesgaard Museum, located near Aarhus. After a period of renovation, the museum reopened during the Aarhus Viking Town Market on May 24, 2008.

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum is one of the largest art museums in northern Europe, at 10 stories tall and an area of 17,000 square meters. Danish architect Schmidt Hammer Lassen won the design competition in 1997, and the museum was opened on April 8, 2004. Featuring a shop, café and restaurant, the museum is divided into three permanent collections: Danish Golden Age 1770–1900, Danish Modernism 1900–1960 and contemporary art. It also includes The 9 Spaces, a “gallery in progress,” where one or two rooms are done each year. The number 9 refers to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and the nine circles of hell. The rooms are painted black to contrast with the bright white exterior.

The Old Town (Den Gamle By) is an open-air village museum consisting of 75 historical buildings collected from 20 townships throughout the country. It was opened in 1914 as the world's first museum of its kind and remains one of the few top-rated Danish museums outside of Copenhagen. The buildings are organized into a small village of structures originally erected between 1550 and the late 1800s.