Blue jays from Birds of America

Photo: John James Audubon / Det Kgl. Bibliotek

TREASURES in Royal Danish Library

Explore Royal Danish Library's greatest treasures in our permanent exhibition TREASURES. We have free entrance.

An exhibition with the finest, most beautiful, most important and most valuable of the Royal Danish Library' treasures. From the oldest manuscripts to the ever-increasing stream of digital cultural heritage on the Internet.

Discover pearls from the collections within natural science, philosophy, cartography, music and much more - or zoom in on a number of prominent Danes and look at Søren Kierkegaard's letter to his fiancée, Karen Blixen's own manuscript or Hans Christian Andersen's diary.

Treasure expedition in the exhibition - for children and their adults

As something special, children and their adults can go on expeditions in the exhibition together. Here you must research, explore and talk about your own treasures. Along the way, you use expedition material such as a flashlight, activity map and treasure chest and find not just one, but many treasures.

Børn der kigger på skattekort og skattekiste i udstillingen skatte

Photo: Malte Ivarsson

Pick up the free expedition material in the Diamond's shop.

The exhibition is also disseminated to children with a whole children's communication track, so that even the youngest can experience and understand Denmark's great treasures. You will find the children's texts on the iPad closest to the treasure.

Read more about the Treasure Expedition

Teaching in the TREASURES exhibition?

We have the teaching course Treasures of the Cultural Heritage targeted at both intermediate and secondary level.

Read more about the course here:

Read about teaching courses (only in Danish)

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