Royal Danish Library is Denmark’s national library and is an institution controlled by the Ministry of Culture. The library has four main focus areas, serving as a national library, university library, loan centre for the Danish public libraries and as a research institution.
As a national library, Royal Danish Library is responsible for collecting, preserving and making available cultural heritage covered by the legal legislation law and special collections. This includes, among other, petabytes of radio and television programmes, the Danish web archive, and complex computer games.
As a research institution, Royal Danish Library performs research aimed at increasing knowledge about the preserved cultural heritage, At the same time the library provides services supporting research and teaching.
The Danish National Archives serve as Denmark’s digital memory. We safeguard data from our society that hold historical, research, or legal value, ensuring they are preserved in ways that remain accessible and meaningful both now and in the future.
For decades, we have been dedicated to the preservation of not only physical but digital records, building a large and ever-growing collection that reflects the many facets of Danish society—1.7 petabytes and counting as of mid-2025. This vast resource plays a vital role in protecting citizens’ legal rights and supporting historical research.
In short, we preserve data so that today’s and tomorrow’s citizens, researchers, and communities can continue to seek answers about the past.
Driven by intellectual creativity and critical thinking since 1479, researchers and students at the University of Copenhagen have expanded horizons and contributed to moving the world forward.
With its 5,000 researchers and 36,500 students, the University boasts an international research and study environment and is consistently ranked among the world’s best universities.
Over the years, 10 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to researchers at the University.
The City Archives stores Copenhagen’s most important records and documents, going back to 1275. The archive exists to contribute to the exploration, documentation, and dissemination of the history of the city of Copenhagen.
Copenhagen City Archives also hosts a digital preservation network called NEA (Network Electronic Archiving). Through NEA, 33 small public archives take advantage of the economies of scale and collaborate closely by sharing specialized staff, tools, and an infrastructure for preservation. It enables even very small archives to do full-scale digital preservation and over the past 19 years the total holdings have grown to >400 TB of mostly born-digital collections.
