National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 1EW
Scotland
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0131 226 4531
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+44 (0)131-622 4803
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Scotland's largest library and the world centre for the study of Scotland and the Scots. Thanks to our UK legal deposit status, we are also a vast reference library.
Venue Type:
Library, Archive
7 million printed books, 120,000 volumes of manuscripts, 1.6 million maps, and over 20,000 newspaper and magazine titles.
Collection details
Archaeology, Archives, Industry, Law and Order, Literature, Maritime, Medicine, Music, Natural Sciences, Religion, Science and Technology, Social History, World Cultures
Key artists and exhibits
- Robert Burns
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Edinburgh Calotype Club
- Douglas Haig
- Winston Churchill
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Murthly Hours
- The Auchinleck Manuscript
- Modern Scottish Writers
- Edinburgh’s Theatre Royal
- Map Library - military and civilian
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