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The Royal Library, which comprises the National Library and Copenhagen University Library, belongs under the jurisdiction of the Danish Ministry of Culture.
We are Denmark's national library and the university library for the University of Copenhagen.
Our mission is to promote education and research and the spread of knowledge, now and in the future.
The Department of Maps, Prints and Photographs, under the National Library, was established in 1902.
This enabled the library to gather all materials such as maps, globes, prints, drawings and other illustrations acquired since its foundation in 1653 in one place.
Today the department has approximately 16 million items, mostly photographs, but also 275.000 maps, 7.500 atlasses and 32 globes.
The department collects Danish as well as foreign materials, but primarily Danish maps, atlasses and globes.