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These are the 26 most beautiful libraries in the world to add to your literary bucket list in 2024.
These libraries will inspire all the book lovers out there to grab a book and hop on the next plane to visit one of these amazing locations.
Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia: Saint Petersburg: 26.5 million [29] Berlin State Library Germany: Berlin: 23.4 million [30] 1.4 million [30] Boston Public Library United States: Boston, Massachusetts at 25 locations 22.4 million [31] US$38.9 million [32] New York State Library
The W. E. B. Du Bois Library holds resources primarily in humanities and social and behavioral sciences. At 28 stories and 286 feet 4 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (roughly 88 m) tall, it is the third-tallest library in the world after the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta at 414 feet (126 m) and Shanghai Library in China at 348 feet (106 m).
It is one of the largest and most important libraries in the world. [1] It was founded in 1958 [2] as a small library with a few books on economics, currently its collection has about 2'000.000 works. Today the library has been expanded and occupies two entire city blocks spanning about 45,000 m 2 (nearly 54,000 sq. yards).
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The Admont Abbey Library (Deutsch: Stiftsbibliothek Admont) [2] is a monastic library [3] located in Admont, a small town next to the Enns River in Styria, Austria, and is attached to the Admont Abbey. [4] Admont Abbey Library is the largest monastic library in the world, [5] and is noted for its Baroque art, architecture and manuscripts. [6]
The abbey library of Saint Gall (German: Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland.In 1983, the library, as well as the Abbey of St. Gall, were designated a World Heritage Site, as "an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural ...