Rungstedlund is a historic estate on the coast of the Oresund, about 25 kilometres north of Copenhagen in the affluent suburb of Rungsted. It is best known as the lifelong home of Karen Blixen, the Danish author who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen and whose memoir "Out of Africa" became one of the most celebrated works of 20th-century travel writing.
The estate now operates as the Karen Blixen Museum, preserving the rooms where she lived and wrote after returning from her coffee farm in Kenya in 1931. The house is modest but atmospheric, filled with her African artifacts, paintings, and personal belongings. Her study looks much as it did when she was working on her Gothic Tales and the stories that made her a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize she never received. Blixen is buried in the garden, under a simple beech tree on the grounds.
The Rungsted Bird Sanctuary — the coastal park that Blixen donated as a nature reserve — makes a pleasant walk along the Øresund shore after visiting the museum. Rungstedlund is easily reached by S-train from Copenhagen — take the Kystbanen line to Rungsted Kyst station, from where the museum is a short walk. It pairs well with a visit to the nearby Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, one of Denmark's finest museums, just a few stops further up the coast.