After visiting Ahmet Ertuğ’s photography exhibition of libraries and opera palaces, I started researching libraries around the world to show that the libraries often described as depressing and boring places in Turkey are not. I wanted to share with you what I found most impressive among them.
Strahov Theological Hall
Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Biblioteca Di Bella Arti, Milan, Italy
Biblioteca do Palacio e Convento de Mafra I, Lisbon Coast, Portugal
Biblioteca do Palàcio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa III, Lisbon, Portugal
Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands
Rennie Mackintosh Library, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Riggs Library, Georgetown University, USA
Suzzallo Library, Seattle, Washington, USA
Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
Widener Library, Harvard. Cambridge, MA, USA
