Prague Clementinum Klementinum

The Clementinum (Klementinum) is the home of the Czech National Library in Prague. This beautiful baroque building was originally a Jesuit College and later came to house the Jesuit book collection as well as the collection from the Karolinum, which they acquired. The library eventually fell to the state after the Jesuits were expelled and the Clementinum became a legal public library in 1782 shortly after it became the National Library.

The Clementinum collection is huge and currently collects a copy of very book published in the Czech Republic. It houses one of the largest Slavic literature collections. The library contains some six million books.