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The Children's Library: Make your own postcards for the holidays

In our children's universe "The Children's Library", you can explore the magical world of books and immerse yourself in creative workshops for the whole family. Open at 12:30-4 p.m. from 1 to 6 July.

Practical information

It is free for all children and their adults to participate in the Children's Library. The activities are primarily aimed at children aged 5-11, but all children are welcome.

 

The Children's Library is located in Galley Hall. You come directly to the Galley Hall from the library's entrance in the Library Garden. If you come through the main entrance to The Black Diamond, follow the signs through the building or ask the staff in the store for directions. If you come with a pram, use the entrance in the Library Garden.

 

Food can be bought in The Black Diamond's café. Food you have brought can be enjoyed in the small dining area in the Galley Hall or out in the Library Garden.

Join Royal Danish Library's new children's universe, the Children's Library, located deep under the old library building in the historic Galley Hall. In the hall there are high ceilings, cosy reading nooks, a creative workshop and play activities for young and old.

In the Children's Library, we do activities in the creative workshop - this time we make and decorate postcards. In addition, you will also always be able to delve into our collection of special children's books, explore our adventurous filing cabinets, play games or go exploring in the library with, for example, our Diamond Hunt or Treasure Expedition. Read much more about it all below.

Creative workshop

This time we are in the holiday spirit and writing postcards. In the creative workshop, you can make your own postcard with fine motifs from Royal Danish Library. You can decorate the postcard, draw on it, write on it and send it to your family or best friend. If the weather is good, you can go to the Library Garden and write your postcard under the trees on the lawn.

The little special library

In our small library you will find books that you have probably not seen before. These are old children's books from when your parents and grandparents were children, and they are new children's book works with beautiful and different illustrations. You can also leaf through a beautiful hand-bound edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, which was made especially for the Children's Library by bookbinders from Royal Danish Library.

Adventurous filing cabinets

At the Children's Library, you can also explore our adventurous filing cabinets. Open the drawers and delve into some of the quirky and fascinating books, pictures, letters and more that are stored in the library's collections. They all tell a funny, exciting, strange or perhaps surprising story about what is on the shelves of the big library vaults.

Experiences in the Galley Hall and on your own

There are many activities at the Children's Library, and you can choose what you want. You can take part in the day's creative workshop, colour fine drawing sheets, immerse yourself in children's books, or play the library's own version of Ludo, Twister or flip games. There are always children's hosts from the library present who can guide you through the activities. The children's hosts can also tell you about the library's other children's services, which you can throw yourself into inside and outside The Black Diamond.

The Children's Library is supported by the Nordea Foundation.

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