Beautiful Libraries for the Librophiliacs

Remember the Library of Human Imagination?

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Strahov Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinet

Strahov Theological Hall; Statue of John the Evangelist Holding a Book

Strahov Philosophical Hall Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland Angelica Library, Rome, Italy Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Beatus Rhenanus Library, Basel, Switzerland Bernadotte Library, Stockholm Sweden Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy Biblioteca Di Bella Arti, Milan, Italy Biblioteca do Palacio e Convento de Mafra I, Lisbon Coast, Portugal Biblioteca do Palàcio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa III, Lisbon, Portugal Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico Bibliotecha de la Real Academia De La Lengua, Madrid, Spain Bibliotheque Alencon, Normandy, France Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris, France Duke of Humphrey’s Library, Bodleian, Oxford University, England Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England Casanatense Library, Rome, Italy Cathedral Library, Kalocsa, Hungary Chetham’s Library, Manchester, UK Dutch Royal Archives Library, Netherlands El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands Hereford Cathedral Chained Library, Hereford, England (Rare books were once kept chained to the bookshelf to prevent stealing.) Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar II, Germany Joanina LIbrary University of Coimbra, Portugal Kremsmuenster Abbey Library, Kremsmünster, Upper Austria. Biblioteca Castilla La Mancha, Spain Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada Library of St. Walburga, Zutphen, Netherland (Preserved from the 16th century) Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria Library of the National Palace of Mafra, Portugal Library of the Prussian King Frederic the Second in Potsdam, Germany Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London North Reading Room, UC Berkeley, California, USA (Terrific reader suggestion) New York Public Library, New York, USA Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium Queen’s College Library Oxford Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Possibly the most beautiful library of them all.) Rennie Mackintosh Library, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland (Added on excellent reader suggestion.) Riggs Library, Georgetown University, USA Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden Russian National Library, St. Petersburg St. Florian Monastery-Library, Austria Salamanca Library, Salamanca, Spain Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy Sorbonne Library, Paris, France State Library, Victoria, Australia Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria Suzzallo Library, Seattle, Washington, USA The New Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Theology Room at St. Deiniol’s library, North Wales Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland University-Library, Helsinki, Finland Vatican Library, Vatican City, Rome Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria Waldsassen Abbey Library, Bavaria, Germany Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, England Yale, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Amelia S. Givin Library, Mount Holly Springs, PA Bad Schussenried Bibliothekssaal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence, Italy Bibliothèque Solvay, Brussels, Belgium Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA, USA Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England Cornell Law School Library, Ithaca, NY, USA Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., USA George Vanderbilt’s Biltmore House Library, Asheville, N.C., USA Harper Library, The University of Chicago, IL, USA John Rylands Library, Manchester, England (Thanks to Edward Brownrigg and John Rylands) Klementium Library, Prague, Czech Republic Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Old Chicago Public Library (Current Cultural Center), Chicago, IL, USA Pierpont Morgan Library, NY, NY, USA Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany (The reading room pictured is entirely underground, the ceiling being level with the grass.) Sterling Memorial Library, Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (The rest of Sterling Library is incredible, but I particularly enjoy that wonderful library specialty, the card catalog) The Grolier Club Library, NY, NY, USA Law Library, Iowa State Legislature, IA, USA The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Northeast Vermont, USA Thomas Crane Library, Quincy MA, USA Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, Canada University of Michigan (Old) Law Library, MI, USA Widener Library, Harvard. Cambridge, MA, USA Wiblingen Monestary Library, Ulm, Germany