Top 10 most beautiful libraries in the world


Admont Abbey Library, Austria   

The books in the abbey‘s original collection were re-bound in white – at enormous expense – to match the rest of the decorative scheme. The bronze sculptures are actually made from wood.



Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portugal

Portugal‘s Joao the Magnanimous astonished the rector of the University of Coimbra by telling him that his request for help towards library facilities was too modest; the lavish result was financed with gold reserves that had been recently discovered in Brazil.

Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena, Italy 

The Malatesta Library is the oldest library in the Western world to retain its original fittings and collection; it takes its name from a local tyrant, Malatesta Novello, who paid for it and oversaw its building between 1447 and 1452. The position of each book is fixed; the reader goes to the book rather than the book being brought by or to the reader.







Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, Paris, France 

Constructed in the mid-19th century, the Sainte-Genevieve library‘s iron roof has echoes of the railway buildings of the time.

Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK   

Founded Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (brother of Henry V of England), in 1435 the library was then reorganized by Thomas Bodley, naming it after himself in 1602. It is now the second largest library in the UK.





Cottbus Library, Germany   

Designed by the Swiss firm of Herzog & de Meuron, the Cottbus library features brightly coloured concrete spiral staircases.

Shiba Ryotaro Museum, Osaka, Japan   

Designed by Tadao Ando, the museum is home to the 20,000 books collected during his lifetime by the historical novelist Shiba Ryotaro.




The George Peabody Library Baltimore USA   

George Peabody was the founder of the charity which continues to finance housing for low-income families in London; he also endowed the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, of which this seven-storey library comprises just part.

The Glasgow School of Art Library, Scotland   

Every element in the library of the Glasgow School of Art (1909) was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who had taken evening classes in architecture at the university in 1883.





The Theological Hall, Strahov Abbey, Prague, Czech Republic   

The Rococo ceiling of the Theological Hall at Strahov Abbey was added 40 years after the room was initially completed; the masonry vaulting offered a degree of protection from fire – a huge problem in medieval and Renaissance libraries as coal or wood fires were used for heating.

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