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 exhibitions at the museums of the Austrian National Library are the poster children of the establishment. Together with the curators and departments, we rise to the challenge of presenting you with exhibition objects in an attractive way while, at the same time, observing preservational guidelines.
We first evaluate the condition of the valuable exhibits at the Institute for Conservation and decide on preservational measures, if necessary. Images are then mounted on passe-partouts and framed, and tailored book cradles are created for books.
External museums and institutions are also interested in the unique objects of the Austrian National Library. Only following careful evaluation do we make several objects available for loans as well. We prepare a condition log for each exhibit “on the road”, in which we log the exact details of its condition, as well as the environmental and technical conditions for exhibition.
Depending on exhibition and exhibit, there are varying requirements of the Institute for Conservation. Two examples: