Clone of Culture Night 2025

Discover hidden treasures from our collections when The Black Diamond – Royal Danish Library opens its doors to an evening full of surprises. Hear Mikael Bertelsen talk about Det Sidste Ord (The Last Word), experience musicians giving new life to old audio recordings from the library's collection of Danish folklore and try your hand at computer games – both old and brand new from the collection.

Experience a very special light installation in the Library Garden, explore The Old Reading Room or see how comics are preserved. Perhaps you would rather read a play with others, explore a selection of old websites from Netarkivet's catalogue or revisit the last decades in DR-arkivet. You can also take the children to the Kirkeby Bridge, where they can become part of a large collective work or get up close to the preservation work and all the many strange things that are found in private collections.

In other words, you should look forward to experiencing everything you didn't know we had.

Mikael Bertelsen and Det Sidste Ord (The Last Word)

The portrait series Det Sidste Ord (The Last Word), in which great Danish personalities appear in public for the last time after their death, is a collaboration between Mikael Bertelsen, TV 2 and Royal Danish Library.

This evening you will get a unique insight into the programme when host Mikael Bertelsen talks about the thoughts behind the groundbreaking television format, the work that precedes the breathtaking meetings in the studio, and not least the place of the broadcasts in the collections at Royal Danish Library.
For the rest of the evening, the Queen's Hall will be the setting for a series of screenings of Det Sidste Ord (The Last Word).

Light art in the Library Garden

Experience the artist collaborative Båll and Brand's light installation "Cirkler af Erindring" (Circles of Memory) on the facade of Royal Danish Library in the Library Garden. It consists of four unique installations that connect the Danish War Museum, Royal Danish Library, the Danish Jewish Museum and the Danish Parliament together in time, storytelling, memory and identity - and one unified, magnificent light installation.

The work consists of organic materials from Royal Danish Library's collection – such as parchment, leather, paper and gold foil – captured in glass discs that create unique facade projections.