The Bibliothèque nationale de France has given its architect Dominique Perrault ‘carte blanche’ to develop an exhibition dedicated to the building he designed in 1989 : with an original ‘mise en abyme ...

After extensive renovations, the magnificent ‘Richelieu’ section of France’s national library is now open to the public. In combining the libraries of ‘Ecole national des Chartes’ and the INHA (France ...

Typically, when experts think of drawings from this period, the male nude is the most familiar image, says Clark-Getty Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin, who spent time in Paris working alongside the ...

The world’s oldest mandatory-deposit library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF), conserves not only the nation’s printed matter but also fine collections of coins, medals, engravings, maps, ...

WhileArsène Lupin strolls through the Opéra, it's Cardinal Mazarin who takes his place at the heart of the BnF Richelieu, in a new immersive game from Cultival, starting Novembe ...

Opened in 1996, the new national library was the last and costliest of Mitterrand's grands projets. Its architect, Dominique Perrault, was criticised for his dated design, which hides readers ...

Conceived as a super-library that would combine national collections in one building, Paris’s Bibliothèque nationale de France was the last of the ‘’Grands travaux’’ of the architectural program ...

Doha — In the presence of His Excellency Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, Minister of State and President of Qatar National Library, and Her Excellency Rachida Dati, French Minister of Culture, ...