While you wait

If you can not come to us, we will come to you! Maybe you are in quarantine at home or you are one of the particularly vulnerable. This is content that can be enjoyed from the comforts of your home.

Mor og børn venter ved vinduet — Photo: Jonals Co.

We have collected and packaged some of all our digital content that you can find at home from the living room. Enjoy.

While you wait: Read Hans Christian Andersen's Diary

Follow Hans Christian Andersen while he was in quarantine during his big trip abroad.

While you wait: Listen to a podcast

Learn more about a classic. Hear Master Fatman talk about Proust, Knud Romer about Heidegger, Christina Hesselholdt about Virginia Woolf and Christian Lollike about Ludvig Holberg.

While you wait: Read a fairy tale

Lene Vinther Andersen fortæller om folkeeventyret om "Prinsessen i det underjordiske slot"

We have digitised one of the fairy tales which folklore collector, Evald Tang Kristensen, collected. For the audience of the time, the fairy tale was about Southern Jutland's reunion with Denmark.

While you wait: Help us with aerial photos

Aerial photo: the property Bonderupvej 69 in Ubberup near Ugerløse

Royal Danish Library has more than 400,000 aerial photos with unknown locations. Help us find out where they were taken.

While you wait: For the school to reopen

Are you running out of ideas for teaching your youngsters at home? We want to help.

While you wait: Get to know our treasures

Torsten Schlichtkrull talks about the book Birds of America

Hear our experts talk about some of the most unique materials in the library's collections.

Get to know more about our treasures

Close-up of page in Dante's Divine Comedy

Hear our experts talk about some of the most unique materials in Royal Danish Library's collections.

While you wait: Read our newspapers

Newspapers are loaded by horse-drawn carriage at the Statens Avissamling Aarhus 1918

We have almost 6.5 million newspaper pages freely available. Find a good corner, grab a cup of coffee, stop your pipe and read.

While you wait: See what we looked like

Young couple. Front page of Daels Warehouse Catalog 1979

We have saved the advertising catalogues from the large Danish department stores. Many of them are digitised. Explore our common fashion history.

While you wait: See our photo album

Children and young people celebrate the liberation of Denmark in 1945

We have over 330,000 photos from the Danes' joint photo album. Explore them.

While you wait: Listen to letters

We are much more than our locations. Listen when Lotte Andersen, Claus Høxbroe and Ellen Hillingsø and others read aloud letters from our collections.

How to find images

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

Digital collections

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

Collection of Prints and Photographs

Women in demonstration march for suffrage 1915

We have both physical and digital images in the collection. They all come from Denmark or have some kind of connection with the country.