Malmö public library
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Malmö City Library is located in Malmö
, Sweden
and celebrated its 100 anniversary in December 2005. It has 550 000 different media, about 10 000 DVD
s and 33 500 music CDs. In 2006 it became the first library in Sweden to lend video games.
Malmö City Library var first opened the 12 December 1905, then in Hotel Tunneln. At that time they had 3096 volumes - books and periodicals. In 1946 it moved to "The Castle" at Regementsgatan. The Castle, as it had come to be known as, was originally built for Malmö Museum, and was drawn by the architects John Smedberg and Fredrik Sundbärg, who had been inspired by Danish and Southern Swedish renaissance castles.
Malmö City Library, as it is today, consists of three buildings. "The Calendar of light" was drawn by the Danish architect Henning Larsen
and was inaugurated the 31 of May 1997. The Castle was restored and re-inaugurated the 24 of September 1999. These two main buildings is linked by a building called "The Cylinder", where the entrance, a information desk, a return desk and a cafe resides.
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and celebrated its 100 anniversary in December 2005. It has 550 000 different media, about 10 000 DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s and 33 500 music CDs. In 2006 it became the first library in Sweden to lend video games.
Malmö City Library var first opened the 12 December 1905, then in Hotel Tunneln. At that time they had 3096 volumes - books and periodicals. In 1946 it moved to "The Castle" at Regementsgatan. The Castle, as it had come to be known as, was originally built for Malmö Museum, and was drawn by the architects John Smedberg and Fredrik Sundbärg, who had been inspired by Danish and Southern Swedish renaissance castles.
Malmö City Library, as it is today, consists of three buildings. "The Calendar of light" was drawn by the Danish architect Henning Larsen
Henning Larsen
Henning Larsen is a Danish architect.He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadhand the Copenhagen Opera House...
and was inaugurated the 31 of May 1997. The Castle was restored and re-inaugurated the 24 of September 1999. These two main buildings is linked by a building called "The Cylinder", where the entrance, a information desk, a return desk and a cafe resides.
External links
- Malmö City Library - Official Site