Thanks to PhDiva for Facebook-linking to a site with photos of the 20 Most Beautiful Libraries in the world.
It included one of my favorites: The Old Reading Room of the British Library.
This is where Karl Marx came up with some of his [ahem] curious economic and political theories. But don't hold that against it. The British Museum built around the room, and eventually the library collection was moved to a new (and, in my opinion, less aesthetically pleasing) building. (I mean, look at the bones of this thing! The new building in St. Pancras is just so...square.)The museum also houses the Enlightenment Gallery (a remnant of the old Kings Library), which is still beautiful in its own right.
More pictures here!
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