The Danish National Art Library is the national research library for architecture, art history, visual arts and museology in
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
. It was founded in 1754 as part of the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts () has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.
History
The Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Cope ...
and has been located at
Charlottenborg's
Nyhavn Wing in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
. It became an independent, self-owning institution in 1996.
The library is a member of the Danish Association of Research Libraries.
Collections
The Danish National Art Library has the largest Nordic collection of
art-historical literature (over 300.000 volumes). It continues to grow as it has done since 1754. The collection covers a qualitative selection of books on
architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...
,
visual arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...
, art history and theory, together with interdisciplinary museology.
Architectural renderings
The collection of architectural drawings consists approximately 300,000 items dating covering the period from the mid16th century until the present day. Approximately 14,000
drawing
Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...
s have been so far been digitalized. The library collects renderings from Danish architects, both realized and unrealized, measurings of national and foreign architecture, drawings from the architectural school and travel sketches.
Facilities
The library has a reading room in its main branch at Nyhavn 2 in central Copenhagen. Tare and fragile materials such as rare books and architectural drawings can only be studied in a special study room in
Søborg.
References
External links
Official website
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1754 establishments in Denmark
Libraries established in 1754
Libraries in Copenhagen
Visual arts libraries