Opening hours
Main Building, al. Niepodległości 213
Reference Centre
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| 8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-15.30 |
closed |
tel. (+48 22) 608 23 30, (+48 22) 608 23 24
e-mail: bninform@bn.org.pl
Reading Rooms: Main, Periodicals, Humanities, Microform, Librarianship and Information Science
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| 8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-15.30 |
closed |
Ephemera Reading Room
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| 10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
closed |
closed |
Music Reading Room
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| 10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
closed |
closed |
Recorded Sound and Audiovisual Documents Reading Room
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| 10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
closed |
closed |
closed |
Cartography Reading Room
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| closed |
10.00-15.00 |
10.00-15.00 |
closed |
closed |
closed |
closed |
Readers Registration
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| 8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-20.30 |
8.30-15.30 |
closed |
The reading-rooms: Main, Periodicals, Humanities, Microform, Librarianship and Information Science, Reference Centre and card catalogues of the 1801-1999 collections have their regular maintenance breaks from December 27 to December 31. During those days they are closed to readers.
The reading-rooms: Cartographic Collection, Music, Recorded Sound and Audiovisual Documents have their regular maintenance breaks from December 23 to December 31. During those days they are closed to readers.
Palace of the Commonwealth (Pałac Rzeczypospolitej), pl. Krasińskich 3/5
- Informations about manuscripts: e-mail: manus@bn.org.pl
- Informations about early printed books: e-mail: stardruk@bn.org.pl
- Informations about access to the special collection: tel. (+48 22) 531 02 03; e-mail: udost@bn.org.pl
Special Collection Reading Room
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| 9.00-17.00 |
9.00-17.00 |
9.00-17.00 |
9.00-17.00 |
9.00-17.00 |
closed |
closed |
(storage magazines are open from Monday to Friday until 14.30)
Iconographic Collection Reading Room
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday and Public Holidays |
| closed |
12.00-16.00 |
9.00-14.00 |
closed |
closed |
closed |
closed |
Attention! Book request forms are collected no later than one hour before reading room closing time.
The reading-rooms: Special Collection and Iconographic Collection have their regular maintenance breaks from December 23 to December 31. During those days they are closed to readers.
The entire library is closed to readers:
- on all Sundays
- on all Saturdays throughout July and August
- for all national and church holidays, i.e.: January 1, Easter weekend and the following Monday, May 1, May 3, Corpus Christi, August 15, November 1, November 11, Christmas Day and December 26.
