beautiful biblioteques

When I think of libraries, I imagine tall stacks of leather-bound books, enormous globes of the world, rolling ladders, marble floors, and pinch-faced librarians shushing me. My local public library doesn’t quite fit my mental image, but some of these libraries are enough to take my breath away.

Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Trinity College Library, aka The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland

Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria

Library of Congress, Washington DC, US