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It's Time to Create a Herbarium!

29 Jul 2020

We invite you to an interesting creative activity. There is only one month of summer left, and there are many different plants around us. We offer to collect flowers and herbs, create your own herbarium and compare with the images on old prints. Did plants look like this 500 years ago? Place modern flowers next to an engraving from the past and compare!

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About the Main Library of the Country On Air On Belarus 1

13 Jul 2020

The National Library of Belarus is one of the main attractions of the Republic. In 2006, the Belarusian “Diamond of Knowledge” became an innovator not only in architecture but also in technological solutions. Representatives of 120 countries are now among the readers of the Library. This has been made possible thanks to the information trends that employees of the institution are quick to pick up.

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How the Main Library of Belarus Was Created and How it Works

6 Jul 2020

The architecture of the National Library of Belarus has redefined the idea of how the main book depository of the country should look like. The form of the rhombic dodecahedron, invented by Leonardo Da Vinci, is complex and at the same time spectacular, therefore it is not surprising that the Library, “diamond of knowledge”, was included in the rating of 100 architectural masterpieces of the world.

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Events

Seminar "Belarus – republic-partizan"

10 Jul 2024

As part of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders, the National Library of Belarus is implementing the project "The Names of Heroes are immortal".


Dancers' Painter

5 Jul 2024

The book and illustrative exhibition "Dancers' Painter", dedicated to the 190th anniversary of the birth of the French impressionist artist Edgar Degas (1834–1917), takes place from July 5 to August 25 in the Fine Arts reading room (room 306).

Modernity and the future of the Earth's population

2 Jul 2024

From July 2 to August 5, in the documents of international rganizations of the National Library of Belarus (2nd floor, room 207g), a thematic book exhibition "Modernity and the future of the Earth's Population" takes place. The exhibition is dedicated to World Population Day, the 75th anniversary of the formation of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the 30th the anniversary of cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and UNFPA .