The Spanish National Library invites tourists to its museum (former Book Museum), which presents a collection of unique exhibits, including antique typewriters, bookbinding tools, typography equipment, as well as paintings, sculptures and even old furniture and musical instruments .
The library's magazines contain about 26 million items, including: 6,000,000 books published after 1831 and 50,000 old books from before 1831. In addition, there are manuscripts, incunabula, magazines, drawings, posters, engravings, postcards, photos , sound and video recordings.
The Spanish National Library was opened in 1712 as the Royal Library. By order of King Philip V four years later, its collections were made available to all citizens. Its branch is located in Alcala de Henares.
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