Thursday, January 1, 2009

World's Most Beautiful Libraries

For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers, for others it’s abandoned factories or lost cities. But for those who enjoy reading, a huge beautiful library is a place of endless pleasure. Meet 20 of the biggest and most beautiful libraries around the globe. 


Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland 





Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 




Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland 




Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria 



Jay Walker's Private Library 



Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam 



Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada 



Strahov Monastery - Theological Library, Prague, Czechoslovakia 




Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany 





Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 




Wiblingen Monastary Library, Ulm, Germany 




Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria 



Central Library, Seattle 




Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria 




George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 


National Library, Belarus 

Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden 


Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy 



Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England 


Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US