Bergen Public Library
Stone neo-Romanesque library from 1917, built around a famed bibliophile's private book collection.
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This guide to Bergen Public Library follows Paul Botten-Hansen, a nineteenth-century librarian in Christiania who lived poor so he could live among books. It visits the cramped rooms where a young Henrik Ibsen found friends and a foothold, and asks how one man's private shelves ended up across the country in Bergen. Best heard standing on Strømgaten, facing the stone arches of the nineteen-seventeen building.
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