Due to an event, the State Hall will be closed on Wednesday, November 19, from 12 p.m.
Between December 27, 2025 and January 5, 2026, all reading rooms of the collections (except those at Heldenplatz!) will only be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Please note the opening hours in December and around New Year's Eve.
The reading rooms on Heldenplatz will be closed on Sunday, October 26 (National Holiday), Saturday, November 1 (All Saints' Day) and Sunday, November 2, 2025 (All Souls' Day).
The State Hall, Literature Museum, Papyrus Museum, Globe Museum and Esperanto Museum will be open during their regular opening hours.
In its Vision 2025. Knowledge for the World of Tomorrow (published in 2012), the Austrian National Library outlines its long-term perspectives for the future and its position in tomorrow’s knowledge society.
Vision 2025 rests on four fundamental values to which the library commits itself:
Building on these values, Vision 2025 defines five central goals that are directly related to the library’s legal mission and which will determine its strategic priorities for the years to come. Their common denominator is the transformation of a traditional twentieth-century library for scholars into an open knowledge centre of the twenty-first century.
The following five mottos define the goals for the library’s future development:
The concrete implementation of these five long-term goals follows defined strategic goals that have been scheduled for periods of five years each.
The Austrian National Library looks to the future with optimism and confidence.