Departments in The National Library

The National Library comprises a number of different departments with a large selection of materials, subjects and collections.

The collections contains printed material from Denmark, among them ephemera

Department of Legal Deposit

administers the law of Legal Deposit, is the Danish ISSN center, compiles the list of Danish periodicals and manages the collection of ephemera

Department of Manuscripts & Rare Books

Centre and reading room, staff, news, catalogues and e-manuscripts

Copenhagen Central Station - last train gone

Department of Maps, Prints and Photographs

Facts about The Department of Maps, Prints and Photographs

The manuskriptet for J.P.E. Hartmann and Hans Christian Andersen's opera

Music and Theatre Department

One of Scandinavia's largest collections of music and drama. Visit the Orchestral Collection and the Drama Collection.

Oriental and Judaica Collections

Collections from all over the world

The building <The Fish> which houses The Danish Folklore Archive

Danish Folklore Archives

The Folklore Archives preserves ordinary people's perception of life, memories, traditions, singing, music and everyday stories for posterity.

Department of Preservation

Preservation of the physical collections of The Royal Library in the best possible condition

Digital Preservation

The main task of the department is to ensure that the digital cultural heritage is stored for the future.

From the collections

Theatre collections

The collections of the Drama Collection contain aprroximately 36.000 manuscripts and prints of Danish and foreign theatre texts. Several other theatre collections in the National Library provide documentation and information about Danish theatre history

מורה נבוכים (Moreh nevukhim, 1347/48; Cod. Heb. 37, fol. 114a, detail)

Manuscripts in the Judaica Collection

On paper and parchment through nine centuries

The Map Collection

Map Collection