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The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

Curious Expeditions (great site) has a stunning post about incredible libraries across the planet. Most of the photos (including all the ones seen here, I believe) were taken by Candida Hofer, but I hadn’t seen most of them before. Fantastic stuff.

Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Biblioteca do Palacio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa III, Lisbon, Portugal
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Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria
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George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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This entry was posted on Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 2:39 AM and filed under photography, misc.
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Comments (4) to “The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries”

  1. Richard Wanderman wrote:

    Fantastic find. Wow.

    Posted on 07-Sep-07 at 5:02 am | Permalink

  2. Rachel wrote:

    I am totally in love. With this post and YourDailyAwesome in general. Keep up the good work :)

    Posted on 07-Sep-07 at 6:07 am | Permalink

  3. robert wiedenfeld wrote:

    thank you jesus

    Posted on 08-Sep-07 at 3:03 am | Permalink

  4. Jeff wrote:

    I got married in the library at the bottom: Peabody Conservatory Library in Baltimore. And it was beautiful.

    Posted on 14-Sep-07 at 6:59 am | Permalink