Collections

Danish Collections (The National Collections)

Danish books and periodicals acquired by legal deposit or purchase

Danish newspapers

Danish newspapers and local papers

The Collection of Pamphlets and Corporate Publications

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Manuscript Collections and Archives

Manuscripts from the Middle Ages, papers, diaries and letters, notes and drafts.

Rare Books

Incunabula, parchment collection, bookbindings, and other collections of old and rare books

The Collection of Prints and Photographs

Collection of Prints and Photographs

The Map Collection

Map Collection

The Aerial Photograph Collection

Aerial Photography

Signature from J.S. Bach's cantata 'Mein herze schwimmt im Blut'

Music Collections

Online music, scores, sheet music, the orchestral collection and sound recordings in The Royal Library.

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

The Oriental Collection

Orientalia in the National Library

The Judaica Collection

Judaica in the National Library

Publications of International Organisations

EU/EF, Council of Europe, UN, GATT/WTO, ILO, NATO, OECD, OSCE, UNESCO, UNIDO and WIPO

Old collection of foreign prints

Exiting old books about all subjects and special collections of books in many fields.

The reference collection

Reading Room West has a general reference collection of 65.000 volumes with an emphasis on the Humanities and Theology

Archive of Danish Literature

ADL is an online service in Danish with classical Danish literature. Here you can study the authors' texts supplemented by extensive documentary material.

Features in Focus

Digital presentations of treasures from the library, Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard, The Poma manuscript, plates from the Danish flora and Archive of Danish Literature