The Klementinum area is under reconstruction
that will also influence the everyday library services - reduced circulation, noise and dust from the ongoing works etc. Please, watch special notice boards, leaflets and information on the National Library's web sites. We apologise for any inconvenience.    

Pre-registration for new users
The pre-registration will allow you to put online orders through the NL catalogue (at this stage all of them only for in-house use in our reading rooms), book computer in the Reference centre and overview items on your user’s account ...    more ...

Digitisation projects of the NL will archive hundreds of thousands of books and magazines
Czech National Library will digitise half a million of books with the help of EU operational programme and Google. ... Press realease ...    

The Paris Fragment of the Chronicle of Dalimil. The Tapestry Replica
March 16 – May 20, 2012, The Klementinum Gallery – Exhibition Hall: Twenty vowen tapestries feature scenes from early Czech history ... Invitation ... Opening ceremony ... Photogallery ... Tapestries ...    more ...

Ours or Alien. Written Culture at the Balkans and Central Europe in the Middle Ages.
12 April – 31 May 2012, Exhibition corridor: EMBARK is a twenty-month project, conducted between 2010 and 2012, which is funded through the European Programme Culture 2007-2013 ...    more ...

Klementinum's baroque library reopens
One of the oldest hall gallery systems in the country has been preserved in its original shape. The library was completed in 1727, probably after a design of the prominent baroque architect Kilian Ignac Dietzenhofer ...   more ...