Art, Theaters and Museums

The world’s first museum dedicated to the work of 20th and 21st-century American artists, the Whitney Museum is a trendsetter within the global art co… Read the rest

Libraries have been ravaged by wars and destroyed in fires throughout the ages. We came across these evocative scarred books in the library of the Cha… Read the rest

The first-floor entrance lobby to the Biblioteca Marciana (completed in 1564) in Venice is reached by a dramatic and richly decorated staircase from a… Read the rest

In 1965 Louis I. Kahn was commissioned by the Phillips Exeter Academy to design a library for the school. The Academy had been planning the new librar… Read the rest

Mafra, in Portugal is 88m (288ft) long, making it the longest monastic library in the world, narrowly beating Admont to the title. Housed in a monaste… Read the rest

The Tripitaka Koreana, Haeinsa Temple, South Korea, 1231. This is one of the oldest and most remarkable collections in the world. The items on the she… Read the rest

Once ascended, never forgotten; this dark forbidding staircase ascends from the entrance vestibule to the brightly lit library above. This is a common… Read the rest

The Philology Library of the Free University of Berlin is more commonly known as the “Brain”, possibly because it looks like a brain. Albeit a big one… Read the rest

Bedales Memorial Library was founded in 1893 as an alternative to the authoritarian practices common in Victorian schools, Bedales is a school for stu… Read the rest

The Utrecht University Library by Wiel Arets is completely black inside, except for the furniture (which is red) and the color provided by the books t… Read the rest