Opening hours

Is NSZL open now? no

Registering for a Reader Pass

• Tuesday – Saturday: 9.00 – 19.00

General Reading Rooms

(History Science Reading Room, Literature Science Reading Room, Periodicals Reading Room, Microfilm Reading Room, Reference Library)

• Tuesday – Saturday: 9.00 – 20.00

Hereby we inform you that due to technical reasons, the General Reading Room of National Széchényi Library will be closed temporarily. Stock stored on free shelves here will be available to readers. More information on this will be provided by NSZL staff on duty in the Reference Center of the Library.

Special Collections Reading Rooms

(Manuscripts Reading Room, Early Printed Books Archive, Collection of Theatre History, Music Collection, Map Collection, Collection of Posters and Small Prints):

• Tue – Fri: 9.00 – 17.00
• Sat: 9.00 – 14.00
• Documents stored in depository are available by the next workday the earliest. Requests submitted after Friday 14.00 are available only next Tuesday.

Library of Book History, Library and Information Science

Bookshop – Infopoint

• Tue – Sat: 9.00 – 17.00 (lunch break: 13.00 – 13.30)

Buffet

• Tue – Fri: 9.00 – 18.00
• Sat: 10.00 – 17.00

Opening hours of the Express Elevator

• Mon: 06.00–19
• Tue-Sat: 06.00–20.30
• Sun: 09.00–18.30

Extraordinary closure

• 23 October, 2019: Closed (feast day)
• 01 November, 2019: Closed (feast day)
• 02 November, 2019: Closed (””)
• 24 December, 2019 - 01 January, 2020: Closed