Open Book Tower
As part of Aarhus Festival's theme "The city seen from above", we are opening the book tower on Victor Albecks vej. Experience the fantastic view of the city and go on a guided tour of the library.
Royal Danish Library in Aarhus invites you inside from 2 to 4 September. Both to the top of the tower and behind the scenes of the library.
It is possible to go up and look out over the city of Aarhus from the top of the tower, but there are also guided tours that tell about both the buildings and the library's tasks as the national library of Denmark. There is also a special angle on the book tower that deals with the time during the Cold War.
We offer three different tours:
A trip to the top of the book tower to see the view
Here you can take a trip to the top of our 45-meter high book tower and see the view over Aarhus.
This tour does not require registration.
You meet in the library lobby, entrance from Victor Albecks Vej 1.
All three days between 12 and 5 p.m., last tour starts at 4.30 p.m.
Duration approximately 20 minutes.
A tour to both the top of the book tower and down into our underground storerooms
On the tour we talk about the library's history and collections, the architecture and the study environment, and take a look at the view from the book tower.
This tour requires registration.
All three days between 12 and 5 p.m., last tour starts at 4 p.m.
Duration approximately 45 minutes.
The Cold War in the Book Tower
In 1949, Denmark joined the Atlantic Pact, thus abandoning its former neutrality as part of the Western defense alliance against the Soviet Union. Join us on a tour from the basement to the attic, where we will, among other things, look for hidden emergency exits under the parking of bicycles, spot low-flying planes from the top floor of the book tower and open the heavy iron doors to the lower floors.
This tour requires registration.
All three days between 12 and 5 p.m., last tour starts at 4.15 p.m.
Duration approximately 45 minutes.
On your own
You can also explore the library on your own, where you can:
- hear how you can search in Mediestream and find articles from old Danish newspapers
- see our frieze with pictures from the library's history
- see our newly designed study environment 'Indsigten', which is an offline area
- Enjoy a nice lunch or coffee and cake in our canteen.
