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.
Search services
Through our search services you can search directly in many of our materials. Here you can find pictures, letters, maps, newspapers, radio and TV broadcasts and much more.
API
Using our API (Application Programming Interface), you can get access to datasets containing aerial photos, images and literary texts.
Danish educational history
Take a closer look at Danish educational history material such as wallcharts, photos, parish charts, and teaching material throughout the ages.
Denmark’s Letters
This collection lets you read and search our digitised historical letters, sent from the 16th century and up to the 1930s.
Digital collections
Immerse yourself in a range of digital collections, including images, printed matter, handwritten manuscripts, maps, rare books, and much more.
Digital magazines
In the library system, you can find the digitised editions of the magazines Bil-revyen, MC-revyen, and Båd-revyen.
DR-arkivet
Discover a unique amount of DR's programmes in Royal Danish Library's archive from the Danish Broadcasting Corporation: DR-arkivet.
LOAR
Find our open datasets containing raw text from monographs, newspapers and audio recordings in our Library Open Access Repository (LOAR).
Mediestream
Mediestream gives you online access to our unique digital collection of historical newspapers, radio and TV programmes, and cinema advertisements.
Open Books
Get access to scholarly and professional e-books from Danish research institutions.
Texts
Here you can read and search works from the Danish literary history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
The library system
In the library system, you can borrow books, articles, and journals. You can also find physical and digital material, for example images, music releases, sheet music, manuscripts, and much more.
The sound of Denmark
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.
Tidsskrift.dk
Tidsskrift.dk gives you access to Danish professional, scientific, and cultural journals in digital full text.
Get inspired
How to find advertisements
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
We have collected around 300,000 architectural drawings from Danish architects. We also have architectural photographs, architects' archives, sketchbooks, architectural models and travel sketches.
How to find art history
The art history collections contain auction catalogues, photographs, artist signatures and art history archives. Some have been digitised, while others still only exist in physical form.