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The library system

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.

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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.

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Mediestream

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

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Digital collections

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

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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.

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Tidsskrift.dk

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

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Danish educational history

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

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The sound of Denmark

Listen to sound clips of folk songs, dialects and narratives from all over Denmark, recordings from the ethnographical journeys of Haslund-Christensen, and much more.

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Texts

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

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Denmark’s Letters

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

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Digital Yearbooks

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

API

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

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LOAR

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

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Gain access to research in our archived internet material

The web archive contains material that has been made public on the Danish part of the internet since July 2005.

How to find advertising films

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.

How to find architecture

The library has approximately 300.000 architectural drawings collected from Danish architects. It also includes architectural photography, archives, sketchbooks, models and travel sketches etc.

How to find computer games

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.

How to find Danish newspapers

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

How to find Danish radio and TV programmes

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.

How to find folklore and examples of Danish daily life

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

How to find images

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.

How to find manuscripts

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.

How to find maps

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.

How to find pamphlets

We have a wide range of pamphlets with anything from parish magazines to Daell’s department store catalogues. Some have been digitised, while some can only be ordered by writing to us.

How to find sheet music

We have printed sheet music from both Denmark and abroad, as well as some Danish manuscript scores. In addition, we have performance material for both professional and amateur ensembles.

How to find videos

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

Collection overview A-Å

All collections at the Royal Danish Library

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Oriental Collection

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.

Educational history collection

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 AU Library, Emdrup.

National Newspaper Collection

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