21.07.2017 - 11:00 to 17:00
To celebrate the national day of Belgium, the Palace of Charles of Lorraine and its museum of the 18th century will be open.
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Visit Librarium
A unique museum where you can find out all about the history of books, writing, and libraries. Until the end of July, focus is on the Apocalypse. Come and discover this motif in books both old and new, in all shapes and sizes.
Order reproductions
Our photography service provides reproductions of documents preserved at the Royal Library, provided that they are not in violation of copyright or conservation regulations.
The Music Reading Room will be closed on Tuesday 27 June from 11.45 am to 5 pm.
As from 1 June 2017, these collections can only be consulted in the general reading room of the Royal Library of Belgium. But how to consult them? Find out here.
Take a look at the photos taken during the relocation of the Reading Room.
The Inside the User's Mind colloquium was organised in Brussels on 22 February 2017. The presentations are now available online:
ADOCHS project is a four-year project dedicated to the improvement of the quality control process concerning the digitised heritage collections.
The Music Department acquired a new important collection in December 2016: the archives of Toots Thielemans, the Belgian musician who passed away on 22 August 2016 at the age of 94.
24 engravings made by Alexandre Cardon of the snow sculptures erected in Antwerp during the particularly cold winter of 1772.
In the 106th issue of Brussels Studies, Marguerite Silvestre provides a summary of twenty-five years of inventory and research in the Vandermaelen collection.
A new museum is due to open in the heart of the Royal Library in 2019.The sixteenth-century Chapel of Nassau and the various rooms that surround it will form the backdrop to the ‘Library of the Dukes of Burgundy’.
You can reserve books online via the catalogue. Remember to bring the confirmation of your request.
You can search for a book using the author’s name, the title or (a) word(s) from the title, or by using a combination of different details.