Thread of the most beautiful Libraries of the World
1. The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading , Rio De Janeiro.
Credit: Alamy
2. Public Library of Stuttgart
3. Trinity College Library, Dublin.
Credit: David Iliff
4. The Tianjin Binhai Library of Tianjin, China
Credits: Muzzleflash
5. The Girolamini Library, Naples
Credit: Massimo Listri
6. Palace Of Mafra Library, Mafra, Portugal
Credit: Massimo Listri
7. Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City
8. Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain.
Credit: Massimo Listri
9. Lello (Bookstore), Porto
10. The Abbey Library of Saint Gall, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Credit: Massimo Listri
11. Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada
12. El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Buenos Aires.
Credit: Paul Hahn
13. Zhongshuge (Bookstore),Chongqing, China.
Credit: Feng Shao
14. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
15. Library of Congress, Washington DC
16. Baroque Library of Metten Abbey, Germany
Credit: Massimo Listri
17. The Vennesla Library, Norway.
Credit: Getty
18. State Law Library of Iowa, US
19. Austrian National Library, Vienna,
Credit: Richard Hopkins
20. Bodleian Library Oxford, UK
Credit: David Iliff
21. National Library of China, Beijing
22. Public Library of Fermo, Italy
Credits: Massimo Listri
23. State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.
24. Wiblingen Monastery Library, Ulm, Germany.
25. The Library of Seitenstetten, Austria
Credit: Massimo Listri
26. Library of Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
27. Copenhagen University Library, Denmark
28. Joanine Library of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
29. The Philological Library of Berlin
30. Rijksmuseum Research Library. Amsterdam
31. The Vatican Library
32. The Library Of The Kremsmünster Abbey, Austria
Credit: Massimo Listri
33. State Library Victoria, Melbourne.
Credit: Getty
34. Strahov Monastery Library, Prague.
Credit: Getty
35. The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
36. The Morgan Library, New York City
37. Library of Catalonia, Barcelona.
38. Plafoxiana Library, Puebla, Mexico
39. Klementinum Library, Prague.
Credit: Alamy
40. Admont Abbey Library, Austria.
Credit: Getty
41. Handelingenkamer Library, The Hague.
Credit: Alamy
42. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center Library, Berlin.
43. Stockholm Public Library
44. Melk Benedictine Abbey Library, Austria.
45. Ateneu Barcelonés Library, Barcelona
46. Mitchell Library, Sydney
47. State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
48. Library of Alexandria, Egypt
49. Malmö City Library, Sweden
50. Toronto Reference Library
51. Akita International University Nakajima Library, Japan.
52. San Francisco Library, Lima, Peru.
credits: Massimo Listri
53. Phillips Exeter Academy Library, New Hampshire, US
54. Helsinki Central Library Oodi
55. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
56. Boston Public Library
57. Sant Florian Library, Austria
58. George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US
59. Old Library of University of Salamanca, Spain
60. National Library of Ireland, Dublin
61. The New York Public Library
62. Old Library, St. John’s College, Cambridge University
63. The Harper Library, University of Chicago
64. Queen’s College Library, Oxford University
65. The Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Paris
66. Selexyz Library, Maastricht, Netherlands
67. Library of Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum, Osaka, Japan
68. Liverpool Central Library
This photo is fake. Sorry. This library has only three levels. This photograph of Simon Paulin is the good one:
69. Calgary Public Library, Canada
70. British Museum Library, London
71. John Rylands Library, Manchester
72. Rampur Raza Library, India.
73. National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
*This is a sad and special addition to my thread of libraries: On this day, 1992, the library was completely destroyed and burned. Hundreds of thousands books and rare manuscripts lost. Fucking War. #OnThisDay
74. Luxembourg Palace's Library, Paris
75. Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
76. Yangzhou Zhongshuge Library.
📸 Feng Shao
77. Arús Public Library, Barcelona.
📸 Welikebcn
78. Salaborsa Library, Bologna.
📸 Eleonora Castore
79. Kloster Maria Laach's Library, Germany
80. Szabó Ervin Library, Budapest
81. “Leninka” Russian State Library, Moscow.
📸 Anton Belitskiy
82. Los Angeles Central Library
📸 Candice Montgomery
83. Cărturești Carusel Bookshop, Bucharest, Romania
84. Archiepiscopal Library, Kromeriz, Czech Republic.
📷 Zdeněk Sodoma
85. The Tripitaka Koreana Library, Haeinsa Temple, South Korea.
(The World's Greatest Collection of Buddhist Scriptures).
📷 Will Pryce
86. The National Library of Finland, Helsinki.
📸 Ollie Laasanen
87. Marienburg Castle’s Library, Hanover.
88. Naver Library, Seoul.
(I really love this green library, real plants on the top of bookshelves)
📷 Ken Lum Lee
89. Dujiangyan Zhongshuge. Bookstore in China.
📸Shao Feng
90. St. Mang Abbey Library, Füssen, Germany.
📸 Reinhard Gorner
91. Linderman Library at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
92. Slocum Library. Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware.
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