Vatican Library to Reopen After Three Years. The Apostolic Vatican Library will reopen to scholars Sept. 20, after three years of closure for urgent renovation. It was founded by Nicholas V in 1447 …More
Vatican Library to Reopen After Three Years.
The Apostolic Vatican Library will reopen to scholars Sept. 20, after three years of closure for urgent renovation. It was founded by Nicholas V in 1447 and now holds about 150,000 volumes of manuscripts and a million works. "We have a garden and we have a beautiful library," the Cardinal librarian, Raffaele Farina, told the media today in the renovated Sistine Hall, which within two years will be transformed into a Reading Room.Among the major work presented by the prefect of the library, Monsignor Cesare Pasini, was a rennovation of the laboratories and the photographic archive, and the creation of a new elevator in the courtyard of the library to connect laboratories with the filing of the precio ...
The Apostolic Vatican Library will reopen to scholars Sept. 20, after three years of closure for urgent renovation. It was founded by Nicholas V in 1447 and now holds about 150,000 volumes of manuscripts and a million works. "We have a garden and we have a beautiful library," the Cardinal librarian, Raffaele Farina, told the media today in the renovated Sistine Hall, which within two years will be transformed into a Reading Room.Among the major work presented by the prefect of the library, Monsignor Cesare Pasini, was a rennovation of the laboratories and the photographic archive, and the creation of a new elevator in the courtyard of the library to connect laboratories with the filing of the precio ...