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 annual special exhibition in the Papyrus Museum is accompanied by an extensive catalogue.
The catalogue is available at our service desk and published by Phoibos Verlag in the series "Nilus: Studien zur Kultur Ägyptens und des Vorderen Orients“.
The Corpus Papyrorum Raineri (CPR) series is one of the oldest series in the field of papyrology. In this series, the extensive holdings of the papyrus collection are continuously edited and supplemented with translations, critical apparatus and detailed comments.
A list of all previously published volumes can be found here.
In the more analytical series "Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek", documents of the papyrus collection are published and contextualised.
A list of all previously published volumes can be found here.
A list of all previously published volumes can be found here.