Alexandria (formerly Informationszentrum)
The Library of Alexandria is considered the most significant library of the ancient world and was the centre of Hellenistic scholarship. The fate of this library, which housed possibly hundreds of thousands papyrus scrolls, is unknown today.

Atlantis (formerly Information Centre)
Plato described the mythical island realm of Atlantis as a political parable: an ideal state that perished due to earthquakes and floods. Whether Atlantis, if it ever existed, had a library, is something we will never know ...

Jerusalem (formerly Group Study Room)
The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem was established almost simultaneously with the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. It collects literature related to Judaism and preserves the memory of Jewish German culture that has been dispersed and destroyed by Nazi persecution.

Oxford (formerly Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Room)
Oxford University‘s Bodleian Library, opened in 1602, is the second largest library in the United Kingdom after the British Library. To use the library, readers must swear, either in writing or verbally, not to harm the library and to abide by all its rules.

Sakya (formerly Claudio-Abbado-Hall)
The Buddhist monastery Sakya was the political centre of Tibet in the 13th/14th century. It is located at an altitude of 4,280 metres. To this day, it houses the
most valuable documents of Tibetan written cultural heritage.

Utopia (formerly Reading Room for Children's and Young People's Literatur)
In 1516, Thomas More described an ideal of social coexistence in his work about the fictional island of Utopia. To this day, Utopia stands for the idealised dream of a peaceful and just social order.