Monday - Saturday 8am - 10pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm
Closed on public holidays
Please note our changed opening hours in May.
On both sites:
General Reading Rooms, study desks, copying/scanning/printing, book loan/return
Haus Unter den Linden:
Reading Rooms Vivarium (Manuscripts), Karthago (Maps) and Wien (Music)
Mon, Wed, Fri 9am - 5pm, Tue and Thu 9am - 7pm
Venedig (Rare Books)
Mon - Fri 9am - 7pm, Sat 10pm - 2pm
Berlin (Newspapers)
Sun closed
| Thursday | 1 May 2025 | Labour Day | closed |
| Monday | 5 May 2025 | Technical maintenance work | Site Unter den Linden closed |
| Tuesday | 6 May 2025 | Technical maintenance work | Site Unter den Linden closed |
| Thursday | 8 May 2025 | 80 years end of Second World War and Liberation from National Socialism | closed |
| Friday | 9 May 2025 | Haus Potsdamer Straße | open not before 10am |
| Monday | 19 May 2025 | Haus Potsdamer Straße | open not before 10am |
| Thursday | 29 May 2025 | Ascension Day | closed |
| Sunday | 8 June 2025 | Whit Sunday | closed |
| Monday | 9 June 2025 | Whit Monday | closed |
| Friday | 3 October 2025 | German Unity Day | closed |
| Wednesday | 24 December 2025 | Christmas Eve | closed |
| Thursday | 25 December 2025 | Christmas | closed |
| Friday | 26 December 2025 | Christmas | closed |
| Wednesday | 31 December 2025 | New Year's Eve | closed |
| Thursday | 1 January 2026 | New Year | closed |
| Sunday | 8 March 2026 | International Women's Day | closed |
| Friday | 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | closed |
| Saturday | 4 April 2026 | Holy Saturday | closed |
| Sunday | 5 April 2026 | Holy Sunday | closed |
| Monday | 6 April 2026 | Easter Monday | closed |
On both sites:
Information & Service | Registration: Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 2pm
Copyshops: Mon - Wed, Fri, Sat 11am - 5pm, Thu 12am - 6pm
Haus Unter den Linden
Vivarium, Karthago, and Wien
Mon, Wed, Fri 9am - 5 pm
Tue and Thu 9am - 7pm
Venedig
Mon – Fri 9am - 7pm
Sat 10am - 2pm
Berlin
Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm
Haus Potsdamer Straße
Information in the Reading Room
Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm
Sat 10am - 2pm
Delivery of special area volumes
Orient and East Asia Reading Room
Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm
