The National Library of Spain celebrates its 300 years anniversary with an exhibition showing a grand selection of some of its treasures: Manuscripts of Leonardo Da Vinci, a famous apocalypse by Beato de Liebana and a manuscript of the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Further drawings and engravings of Dürer, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Goya, Fortuny and Picasso are shown.
Apart from this, the exhibition shows how technologies of writing, conservation and reproduction have changed the institution since Felipe V laid the foundation.
As part of the exhibition visitors are invited to download a free app to Iphones as well as Androids. The app is organized as a catalogue showing photos and a text plus a plan of the exhibition. The information here may also be accessed at a virtual exhibition where it is possible to see fully digitized reproductions of the exhibited treasures.
Unfortunately the catalogue as well as the app is only available in Spanish
Biblioteca Nacional de España: 300 años haciendo historia
