These are the world's most breathtaking libraries

image: Morgan Library & Museum (Spiroview Inc/Shutterstock) image: Spiroview Inc/Shutterstock

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library," wrote Jorge Luis Borges.

I've visited NYC's Morgan Library & Museum, above, and it is most certainly paradisiacal. Smithsonian magazine has shared many others in this collection and I want to collect them all!

Below: The Strahov Library in Prague, the Stuttgart City Library, and the National Library of Brazil.

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image: Strahov Library (STLJB/Shutterstock)
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image: Stuttgart City Library (RossHelen/Shutterstock)
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image: National Library of Brazil (Donatas Dabravolskas/Shutterstock)

Previously:
• A climbable personal library in an old elevator shaft
• Modelling Borges's Library of Babel in Sketchup
• Librarian photographs all the beautiful libraries he visits