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Our exhibition presenting the literary estate of Albert Wass will be open to visitors from 26 March to 31 May 2026, offering for the first time a comprehensive overview of the writer’s legacy returned to Hungary.
2026/03/24
On 20 March 2026, at a press event, the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) announced that it has made freely accessible, via the Copia digital platform, more than 2,600 manuscript items from the Bártfa Collection, which contains outstanding source material of 16th–17th century European sacred music.
2026/03/30
On 19 March 2026 Caroline Savage, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the Embassy of the United States in Budapest, paid an official visit to our library. 
2026/03/25
We would like to inform our readers and visitors that the library will be closed between 3 and 7 April 2026. 
We invite our visitors on a journey inspired by the novel of Mór Jókai at the National Library’s temporary exhibition between 31 March and 30 June 2026.
2026/03/24
We would like to inform our readers and visitors that the library will be closed on March 26, 2026.
2026/03/12
On Saturday, March 14, temporary restrictions are expected along the route of the Honvédfutás race in District I.
2026/02/25
On the anniversary of the 1848–1849 Revolution and War of Independence, you are very welcome with free programmes again – including guided tours in the building of the library in English, Spanish, Italian, and German.
2026/01/27
During cataloguing work in the Early Printed Books Archive of the National Széchényi Library, a unique discovery was made: a particularly rare and exceptionally early incunable, a parchment-printed fragment of the so-called 36-line Bible, was identified by the young researcher of the library, Márton Szovák. 
2026/01/19
The new extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the United Kingdom to Hungary, and member of the governing body of the National Library of Scotland, paid an official visit to the National Széchényi Library on 14 January 2026.
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