While you wait

Coronavirus winter 20/21

During the time period 9 December 2020 - 7 February 2021, you can pick up and drop off books at selected locations, days and times. Check our opening hours. All physical events are cancelled.

Events and exhibitions

We have cancelled or postponed all our events. The exhibition "Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition" is also closed during the time period 9 December 2020 - 7 February 2021.

Rødstrømper – sisterhood and revolution

In 1970 something new happened in Denmark. A group of women associated with the youth uprising had had enough of doing other people's laundry and meeting society's gender-based expectations.

Find materials

In the library system, you can borrow books, articles, and journals. You can also find databases and physical and digital material e.g. images, music releases, sheet music, manuscripts, and much more.

An Aerial View of Denmark

See our digitised aerial photos from our extensive collection. You can also help us place them on the map of Denmark.

Mediestream

Mediestream gives online access to our unique digital collection of historical newspapers, radio and TV programmes and movie theatre commercials.

Digital collections

Immerse yourself in a range of digital collections, including images, printed matter, handwritten manuscripts, maps, rare books, and much more.

Digital collections of the Danish National Art Library

The library has many unique collections of architecture, visual arts, history of arts and museology. Here you can get an overview and search the digitised parts of the collections.