National Library of Norway

The Nasjonalbiblioteket is the Norwegian National Library. As a national culture and knowledge storage it should preserve its own claim "the past for the future". Norwegian book publishers are committed to the delivery of legal deposit to the library.

The establishment of the National Library goes back to a decision of the Storting from 1988. Today it has two locations: in the capital Oslo and northern Norway Mo i Rana. The departments in Oslo were first with the existing since 1811 University Library ( UB) merged at Solli plass. Since being released in 1999 in the context of a new building on the University grounds, the National and University Library, however, institutionally and geographically independent of each existing facilities are. At the two places of the National Library a total of 350 employees.

After necessitated extensive renovation, King Harald V dedicated the house in Oslo in August 2005 a new. The spectacular opening ceremony, which took place on all floors and halls, and was broadcast on large screens, the choreographer Kjersti Alveberg was designed with the assistance of established artists such as Jan Garbarek Kari Bremnes and or students of the theater school.

The budget of the National Library, which was at 280 million crowns (about 33 million euros ) in 2005, will be determined by the Norwegian culture and church ministry. Your collection has existed since the separation of the UB of 2.9 million books and periodicals, 135,000 maps and atlases, 55,000 rolls of film and 30,000 original manuscripts. Over 200,000 images are in the digital archive of the library. Her oldest documents include a prayer book from Hedmark and the Magnus Lagabøters Landslov ( a collection of laws of the Norwegian king Magnus Lagabøte ) from the 13th or 14th century. Other treasures are the original manuscripts and the majority of the letters of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and in 2002 acquired manuscripts and letters of the couple Knut and Marie Hamsun.

Furthermore, manages the National Library, together with the Kon-Tiki Museum, the archives of the archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl. Alongside diaries, original book and article manuscripts, private letters, expedition plans, articles and newspaper clippings It also includes unique photo and film material. The archive was declared in 2011 for the World Soundtrack Awards.