Guides

Our archive of folklore tells the story of ordinary people’s lives and contains the folktales, songs and traditions we share as Danes.

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.

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.

The library has approximately 300,000 architectural drawings collected from Danish architects as well as architectural photography, archives, sketchbooks, models and travel sketches.

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.

Our collection of prints and photographs contains everything from copperplate engravings to fine art photography. Some images are available digitally and some are not.

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 large collections dealing with music. For example, you can find sheet music and recorded music, but also a lot of material about the music.

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

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