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German National Library closed during Easter

18 to 21 April 2025: The German National Library will be closed at both locations. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB)

  • Launched: Online since 2012
  • Objective: Provide everyone with free online access to Germany’s cultural and academic heritage, i.e. to millions of books, archive materials, images, sculptures, musical works and other sound documents, films and music scores.
  • Role of the German National Library: DDB project coordinator and operating the DDB service desk
  • Additional partners: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (home of the DDB administrative office), FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (technical operator) and eleven other prestigious German cultural institutions (competence network)
  • More about the DDB

Last changes: 26.10.2021

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