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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.

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

Mediestream gives you online access to our unique digital collection of historical newspapers, radio and TV programmes, and cinema advertisements.

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

Tidsskrift.dk gives you access to Danish professional, scientific, and cultural journals in digital full text.

Take a closer look at Danish educational history material such as wallcharts, photos, parish charts, and teaching material throughout the ages.

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.

Here you can read and search works from the Danish literary history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

This collection lets you read and search our digitised historical letters, sent from the 16th century and up to the 1930s.

In the library system, you can find the digitised editions of the magazines Car revue, the MC revue, and the Boat revue.

Using our API (Application Programming Interface), you can get access to datasets containing aerial photos, images and literary texts.

Find our open datasets, containing raw text from newspapers and audio recordings, in LOAR.

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 images contain everything from copperplate engravings to press and fine art photography. Some are available digitally and some are not. Get help finding what you are searching for.

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.

We have almost all of the Danish newspapers published from 1666 and up to present day. Some are available digitally and some are not.

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.

Our archive of folklore tells the story of ordinary people’s life and contains tales, songs, traditions etc. which we share as Danes.

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.

Leder du efter skuespil eller materialer om scenekunst, som fx teater, cirkus og dans? Indtil videre hjælper vi dig på vores gamle side.

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.

We have nearly all the videos that have been published in Denmark on either VHS, DVD or Blu-ray from 1998 onwards.

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 games collection contains more than 4,000 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.

The Judaica collection contains manuscripts and books in Jewish languages like Hebrew and Yiddish.

The National Newspaper Collection consists of daily newspapers and local newspapers that have been published in Denmark or have direct relations to Denmark.

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 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.

In the Radio and TV Collection, you will find broadcasts from DR, TV 2 and a number of other Danish TV channels from the mid-80s onward.

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.

We collect released video productions as a part of our preservation of the Danish cultural heritage.

All collections at the Royal Danish Library