The National Library of the United Kingdom is one of the most important research institutions and universal libraries in the world and, with over 170 million works, houses the largest media collection of any library in the world. So much concentrated knowledge in one place: it collects books from all times, all countries and in all languages, stores magazines, newspapers, brochures, sound recordings, patents, databases, maps, stamps, art prints, paintings and much more. The book collection includes works dating back to around 1600 BC.
Unfortunately, we are not allowed to enter the reading room because we do not have an annual membership.
The freely accessible permanent exhibition
"Treasures of the British Library", in which around 350 works of inestimable value are on display (e.g. Magna Carta, a copy of the two in-house Gutenberg Bibles, notebooks by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Leonardo da Vinci, the Beatles' musical notation, the logbook of Horatio Nelson's ship
"Victory", an atlas by Gerhard Mercator ...)