Due to an event, from June 17 to 18, 2026, the Augustinian Reading Room service will take place in the Study Reading Room of the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books.
Due to an event, the Globe Museum, the Esperanto Museum and the reading room of the Collection of Planned Languages will not open until 11 a.m. on June 24, 2026.
Due to an event, the State Hall will already close at 4 p.m. on June 25, 2026.
The Austrian National Library had chronically suffered from a shortage of space ever since its times as a court library. Ideas for a new building or plans for a possible fusion with the University Library were dismissed.
For the user area in particular, a major improvement of the spatial setting was brought about in 1966, when the Main Reading Room and the Magazines Reading Room opened at the Neue Burg, which had previously housed an orthopaedic hospital. With 200 seats in the Main Reading Room and 60 seats in the Magazines Reading Room, plus a spacious catalogue area, the library’s services for users were thus substantially upgraded.
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