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Everything you need to know to plan and make the most of your visit to our building.

Today’s opening times

  • Reading rooms 10:00am - 08:00pm
  • NLA building 08:00am - 08:00pm
  • Galleries 09:00am - 05:00pm
  • Bookplate café 08:30am - 04:00pm
  • Bookshop 09:00am - 05:00pm
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Find us

Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

+61 (0)2 6262 1111

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Tours
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Accessibility
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Cafes

Places and spaces

Woman browsing books on display at the Library's Bookshop
Bookshop
Two young women having morning tea at the Bookplate cafe

Bookplate cafe

Cafes
People reading and talking in a large, sunny room at tables, desks and computer stations

Main Reading Room

Reading rooms
Woman and child smiling as they read a book in the kid's corner of the main reading room

Kid's corner

Family-friendly spaces
Three colourful tapestries hanging above the main entrance doors
Accessibility

About the building

The front of the National Library building showing fountains and steps
Our building
Volunteer Library tour guide smiling and greeting a tour group, made up of people of various ages, in the foyer.
Library tours
An aerial view of the National Library building featuring an angled orange roof
Building works
Orange, brown and white painting hung in the main reading room

Minnie Lumai (b. 1940), Yab-yab-gnerni-gnim (Sugarbag Dreaming), 2009, natural ochre on canvas ; 130 x 125 cm, Main Reading Room.

Artworks in and around the building

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