The Swiss National Library will be closed on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, from 1 p.m. until Friday, December 26, 2025. It will also be closed on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, from 1 p.m. until Friday, January 2, 2026.
The reading rooms of the Swiss Literary Archives and the Prints and Drawings Department will be closed from December 24, 2025, to January 2, 2026.
This is where culture, history, science, art and innovation meet to inspire visitors with a lively mix of impressions and emotions. The Swiss National Library is proud to be an active part of this vibrant network.
The collections of the Swiss National Library consist of books, newspapers and periodicals, websites, maps and atlases, university and corporate publications, official publications and printed music.
The collection of the Prints and Drawings Department includes prints from the 17th to 21st centuries, photographs, postcards, posters and artists’ books, as well as documents on historic monument preservation since the end of the 19th century.
The National Library’s Literary Archives are home to the leading
collection of literary estates, libraries and archives from authors of
the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Swiss National Sound Archives in Lugano collect sound recordings and preserve them for posterity. They have been archiving Switzerland’s audio heritage and making it available to anyone with an interest since 1987.
There was great disappointment when the scheduled cow fighting competitions had to be suspended indefinitely in August 2025 due to the threat of LSD cattle disease. This tradition stems from the combative nature of Hérens cows, who fight to determine the top cow within their herd.
Album No. 6 forms part of a unique collection of 146 photo albums containing vintage prints that take us on a journey from the alpine pastures above Lake Sils over the Maloja Pass and down into the Bregaglia Valley.
André Gide et Marc Allégret réalisent leur voyage dans ce qu’on appelle l’Afrique équatoriale française de juillet 1925 à mai 1926. Pour effectuer leur circuit, les deux hommes emploient un grand nombre de porteurs, dont des listes manuscrites ont conservé la trace.
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