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.
In 2025, the Austrian National Library will once again present five "special exhibits" from its extensive holdings in the State Hall.
You can help decide which objects will be exhibited via online voting. In each of the five votings, there are three objects to choose from.
The "special exhibit" on display will be accompanied by a free expert talk, a blog post and a video (only available in German).
The next online voting with the titel "Explosive Times" starts on September 23, 2025.
The winner of our most recent online voting "Sommer retreat" for the special exhibit is object 1: "Carl von Ghega: Picturesque atlas of the railway over the Semmering" (Lithograph, 18 parts in fanfold (610 x 25 cm), Vienna: Karl Gerold & Sohn, 1854). The winning object will be on display in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library from June 16 until August 31, 2025 and will be presented at an expert lecture (in German) on June 24, 2025.
The winner of our most recent online voting "Quills and the smell of chalk" for the special exhibit is object 1: "Crown Prince Ferdinand’s writing and arithmetic exercises" (Exercise sheets, around 1810). The winning object will be on display in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library from September 1 to October 19, 2025 and will be presented at an expert lecture (in German) on September 9, 2025.