Top 10 Most Beautiful University Libraries in the World

With the development of technology and the advent of electronic readers, classic paper books gradually began to die out. But for some, traditional tomes are not just a source of knowledge, but a real fetish. And libraries at educational institutions have always been the place where people go in search of peace in which they can concentrate on absorbing new knowledge.

We invite you to evaluate the ten most beautiful student libraries in the world and feel the atmosphere of calm and grandeur of the reading room.

1. General Library of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

2. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

3. Library of the University of Salamanca, Spain.

4. Trinity College Library, also known as the Long Room, Dublin, Ireland.

5. Old Library, St. John's College, Cambridge, UK.

6. Philological Library of the Free University of Berlin, Germany.

7. Central Library, University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.

8. William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, University of Chicago, USA.

9. George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.

10. University of Michigan Law Library, Ann Arbor, USA.