Malmö City Library () is a municipal public library in

Malmö Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...

, Sweden, which opened on 12 December 1905. It has 550,000 different media, about 10,000

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s and 33,500 music CDs. In 2006, it became the first library in Sweden to lend

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History

Malmö City Library first opened on 12 December 1905, then in Hotel Tunneln. At that time they had 3,096 volumes – books and periodicals. In 1946, it moved to "The Castle" at Regementsgatan. The Castle, as it had come to be known as, was originally built for Malmö Museum, and was designed by the architects John Smedberg and Fredrik Sundbärg who had been inspired by Danish and Southern Swedish renaissance castles. Malmö City Library, as it is today, consists of three buildings. "The Calendar of light" was designed by the Danish architect

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and was inaugurated 31 May 1997. The Castle was restored and re-inaugurated 24 September 1999. These two main buildings are linked by a building called "The Cylinder", where the entrance, an information desk, a return desk and a cafe are located. File:Malmö stadsbibliotek - Bibliothèque de Malmö - Malmö city library (old building view).jpg, The old building File:Malmö 1513.JPG, "The Cylinder" linking the old and new buildings File:Malmö Library in daylight.jpg, Interior File:Malmö Library at night.jpg, Interior at night File:Malmö City Library, Ljusets kalender.jpg, The Calendar of Light in winter

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Malmö City Library
– Official Site 1905 establishments in Sweden Buildings and structures in Malmö Libraries in Sweden Modernist architecture in Sweden Library buildings completed in 1997 Tourist attractions in Malmö Henning Larsen Architects buildings 1900s establishments in Malmöhus County {{Sweden-stub