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Esperanto greetings from the sea -
"High up!"
Bonvenon! Welcome!
The Department of Planned Languages of the Austrian National Library is home to the world’s largest specialist library for interlinguistics, documenting around 500 planned languages. In addition to Esperanto, the most important planned language in the world today, these also include Volapük, Ido, Interlingua and many others. In the department’s reading room, discover a whole host of books and magazines in planned languages, multifaceted archives and impressive musical recordings and films.
The reading rooms are open again since May 3, 2021. The opening times at Heldenplatz are currently frpm 9 am to 7 pm. Starting May 19, the opening times at Heldenplatz will be 9 am to 9 pm. The collections are open as usual.
In all areas, visitors are required to wear a FFP2-Mask and to keep their distance.
All valid annual tickets are automatically extended free of charge for the duration of the additional closing time, meaning 27 days.
Trainings can not take place on site at the moment. Our range of training courses has been expanded to include webinars, an overview of current dates can be found on the » homepage. We are happy to offer further individually agreed appointments, including online-training courses on pre-academic work for schoolchildren, more information at information@onb.ac.at.
The library and the collections are closed on public holidays, this means also on June 3 (Corpus Christi). In the museums the regular opening times are valid.
Supre je la dekstra flanko vi povas iri al la Esperanto-versio!
