A number of people celebrate the New Year in a living room.

Photo: Peter Elfelt

Happy New Year

We wish everyone a very happy New Year as we look back on the year that passed.

The year 2023 has been an eventful and productive year for the library. We are sure that 2024 likewise will offer many exciting activities, events and changes.

The biggest news of 2023

Here are some of the news that marked the year for the library.

We welcome Nota

Royal Danish Library's sign

Published 05 October 2023

Nota and Royal Danish Library is merged and thus expands the library's role as Denmark's entire library.

Large project to open DR's archive

Employee between shelves in the Radio Tv Collection

Published 15 June 2023

Royal Danish Library looks forward to making DR's archives available to Danes as a result of the new media agreement.

Manuscript included in UNESCO's Memory of the World

Tönnies Fonne's textbook opened

Published 26 May 2023

Tönnies Fonne's handwritten textbook in Russian from the beginning of the 17th century has just been included in UNESCO's Memory of the World. The textbook is part of the library's collections.

Cultural heritage is moving out of the city

Books from the Royal Danish Library's collections

Published 12 April 2023

The cultural heritage moves out of Copenhagen to get better conditions. Parts of the material unavailable 18 August, 2023 to 1 January, 2024. When we are done, you can use the collections as before.

Events in The Black Diamond 2024

You can look forward to these events in 2024.

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Music events

Near the Pond Septet

Copenhagen Jazz Festival: Josefine Cronholm's jazz collective with inspirations in literature – from the American Midwest to Japan.

The Queen's Hall 
More events and exhibitions