Annual maintenance work will take place again this summer, which is why the reading rooms at the Heldenplatz location and in all collections will be closed from Friday, July 25, to Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
Due to the shutdown of the ordering system, no media orders can be accepted from Thursday, July 24, 2025, 4 p.m. to Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 4 p.m. The regular opening hours will then apply again from Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
The study room of the Albertina is closed from July 15 to August 15. During this time (except July 25 to August 5), media ordered from the Albertina collection will be transported twice a week (Monday and Thursday) to the reading rooms of the National Library on Heldenplatz and can be used there.
Starting August 1, 2025, the State Hall will open at 9 a.m.
Due to an event, the State Hall will be closed on August 4, 2025.
The holdings in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books comprise the historic core of the former imperial library from which the Austrian National Library was created.
Ever since the first Court Librarian was appointed in 1575, western and oriental manuscripts, autograph manuscripts, bequests and printed material from the earliest days of the printing press up to 1850 have been preserved, collected and indexed here.
The individual collections are world-ranking in their size and diversity. Even though only restricted access is possible to many of the principal works, in the interests of conservation Digitisation projects, a large number of facsimiles and the extensive collection of specialist literature allow you to engage with our historic books.
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