The museum was founded in 1859 and is Denmark's oldest public art museum outside of Copenhagen. It launched in 2004 with displays in a fresh new modern facility, and it is now one of Northern Europe's largest art museums. In addition to the enormous galleries with both permanent and changing exhibitions, there is an art shop, a dining café, and a restaurant. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum is Denmark's second most visited museum, thanks to the circular skywalk "Your rainbow panorama" by Olafur Eliasson, which was completed in 2011.

KØN - Gender Museum  Denmark, formerly known as the Women's Museum, was established in 1982. It is a museum dedicated to the cultural history of gender and sexuality in Denmark. The goal of its permanent and temporary exhibitions is to give schoolchildren educational outreach programs, sex education, gender equality, and democracy.