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Danish Universities and Royal Danish Library have decided to suspend negotiations with Oxford University Press on a new national agreement.

Royal Danish Library has received a collection of papers from the poet and painter Gustaf Munch-Petersen (1912-1938). The records complements the library's existing collection of the artist's letters.

Explore unique documentation of the German occupation, the liberation, the youth rebellion, women’s liberation, and much more.

Experience Royal Danish Library's DR-arkivet at Aarhus University during the Danish Science Festival 2026, and delve into historical radio and television programmes from 1950 to the present day.

Would you like to experience drama in a new way? Royal Danish Library, in collaboration with Danish public libraries, invites you to reading groups where you can help bring theatre texts to life.