coolthingoftheday:

TOP TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES AROUND THE WORLD

Note: All of the pictures have been labeled; all you have to do is click on the pictures to read the labels beneath them, for those of you who don’t want to have to keep scrolling up and down.

1. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University – Connecticut, United States

2. National Library of Belarus – Minsk, Belarus

3. Philological “Brain” Library at the Free University – Berlin, Germany

4. Geisel Library at University of California – San Diego, California, United States

5. Library at the Benedictine Monastery of Admont – Admont, Austria

6. Central Library at National Autonomous University of Mexico – Mexico City, Mexico  

7. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

8. Stuttgart City Library – Stuttgart, Germany

9. Library of the Dutch Parliament – The Hague, Netherlands

10. Kanazawa Umimirai Library – Kanazawa City, Japan