It's not just the library which pulls in crowds of 80,000 every year – the monastery also has a museum of 'curiosities' which include crystals, taxidermy and over 250,000 insect specimens.

A new exhibition by the National Museum of Ireland features 17 ancient manuscripts with margin scribbles by Irish monks from ...

Visit The Largest Monastery Library In The World At Admont Abbey Austria has its fair share of beautiful libraries, like its largest library, a breathtaking ornate structure with an impressive ...

The library at Admont Abbey is not only a work of art, it’s the oldest monastic library in the world, as well as the second-largest of its kind. “Never before had a creative photoshoot been ...

Monastic tradition represents the heart of the library, Morin said. “Our founding monks already had a desire to read, and that obviously focused on sacred scripture,” he said.

One of Hungary's oldest monasteries is battling a bug infestation crisis damaging troves of archaic books. The Pannonhalma ...

The tower, built around AD 850, contained the monastery's original library. It might have remained a library like any other, had it not been for a decision by the new vizier to tax the monasteries in ...

In ancient monastery, a stunning library By Nicole Veash Special to The Christian Science Monitor May 09, 2002, 12:05 p.m. ET | SINAI, EGYPT ...

At the monastic Library of St. Walburga, in the Netherlands, manuscripts are still chained to desks, as they have been since the 1500s.

The abbey at Pannonhalma was founded in 996, four years before the establishment of the Kingdom of Hungary. Sitting upon a tall hill in northwestern Hungary, the abbey houses the country's oldest ...

Restoration experts at Hungary's Pannonhalma Archabbey are fighting to save thousands of historic books from drugstore ...