Art Library in Nyhavn
ONLY FOR THE DIAMOND CLUB - Get an exclusive insight into one of the library's smallest and most exclusive places to visit: the Art Library.
The Art Library was established in 1758 as a reference library for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts at Kongens Nytorv, and in 2017 became part of the Royal Danish Library.
The Art Library is a special library for architecture, visual arts and art history as well as museology. The collections include both large book collections on visual arts and architecture from the late Middle Ages to the present, as well as large special collections of Danish architectural drawings and architectural models asnd also photographs of Danish architecture and documents of Danish architecture in Denmark and abroad. In addition, the library has larger collections on Danish visual art, including smaller artist archives, clippings and slide collections as well as Weilbach's Archive.
The Art Library is accessible to everyone and mainly serves teachers and students at art academies, architecture schools and universities as well as artists, architects and authorities.
Head of department Steen Søndergaard Thomsen and cand.scient.bibl. Rune Rosenborg Rasmussen will both show us around this beautiful building.
