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.
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.
Listen to audio clips of folk songs, dialects and narratives from all over Denmark, as well as recordings from the ethnographical journeys of Haslund-Christensen, and much more.
The library has approximately 300,000 architectural drawings collected from Danish architects as well as architectural photography, archives, sketchbooks, models and travel sketches.
Our collection of prints and photographs contains everything from copperplate engravings to fine art photography. Some images are available digitally and some are not.
We have a large collection of Danish computer, smartphone and console games, primarily from 1998 onwards. Some are found on physical media and some are digital only.
You can find programmes broadcasted on Danish radio and TV from the mid-1980s onwards. We have nearly all programmes from DR and TV2, while other channels are archived from select periods of time.
The library’s collection of manuscripts date from the Middle Ages to the present. Some of these are available online and others can be viewed in our reading room.
We have an extensive collection of maps and atlases, and we have digitised some but not all of them. Some can be viewed online, while others can only be studied closely in our reading rooms.
We have printed sheet music from both Denmark and abroad, as well as some Danish manuscript scores. We also have performance material for both professional and amateur ensembles.
We have Danish cinema advertisements from the period 1907-1995, TV2 advertisements from the period 1988-2005 and TV2 advertising blocks broadcasted in week 46 of 2005 and onwards.
We have a wide range of pamphlets with anything from parish magazines to Daell’s department store catalogues. Some have been digitised while others need to be ordered by writing to us.
The collection of advertisements is an essential documentation of 20th century Danish cultural history. We have advertisements that were shown in cinemas and on TV.
The computer game collection contains more than 4000 Danish computer, mobile or console games that have been collected on CD-ROM, cassettes and as digital downloads since the late 1990s.
The educational history collection consists of a selection of digitised and photographed items and records from the defunct Danish School Museum and from collections from the AU Library, Emdrup.
Are you looking for plays or materials about performing arts such as dance, theatre, performance art, opera and circus? We have manuscripts, photos, programmes, audio and personal archives.
Our collection of maps is one of Northern Europe's largest. The oldest maps in the collection date from the 16th century, and the newest may have just come from the printing house.
Nationaldiskoteket is our collection of published music and speech. It documents Danish music history from the first recordings made in the 1890s to today's digital releases.
We are responsible for collecting and preserving the Danish part of the Internet as part of the Danish Legal Deposit Act. The goal is to ensure the material can be used for future research purposes.
The national newspaper collection consists of daily newspapers and local newspapers that have been published in Denmark or have direct relations to Denmark.
The Oriental collection consists of manuscripts, printed works, and other material originating in non-western language areas and cultures, mostly Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
We have a number of different sound recordings in the collections that document the Danish sound history from the first recordings on wax cylinders in 1889 to today's digital releases.
Today, Det Kgl. Bibliotek's collections contain 5.2 million aerial photo units. Aerial photos are images taken from the air, typically from an airplane.
We are responsible for collecting and preserving ordinary people's experiences of life, daily life, traditions, music and stories. Find out how we have organised the collected material.
In the collection we have, among other things, letters, manuscripts and handwritten books. The oldest are from the early Middle Ages and the newest from our time.
We have a large collection of Danish and foreign sheet music. Some you can borrow and some you can only use in our reading rooms. It contains printed music, sheet music manuscripts and vocal material.
Our collection of maps is one of Northern Europe's largest. The oldest maps in the collection date from the 16th century, and the newest may have just come from the printing house.
The national newspaper collection consists of daily newspapers and local newspapers that have been published in Denmark or have direct relations to Denmark.