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Reading rooms opening hours

Reading rooms opening hours: Richelieu-Louvois Library

Open every day
  • except Sunday
  • except public holidays :
    • 1 January
    • Easter Sunday and Monday
    • 1 and 8 May
    • Ascension Thursday
    • Pentecost Sunday and Monday
    • 14 July
    • 15 August
    • 1 and 11 November
    • 25 December

Annual closure : from Monday 2 to Sunday 15 September 2013 inclusive

Richelieu

From Monday to Friday Saturday
Readers' Advisory Service 10.00am-5.00pm 10.00am-12.30pm
1.30pm-5.00pm
Reference room (Salle de références) 10.00am-6.00pm 9.00am-5.00pm
Performing Arts (Arts du spectacle) 10.00am-6.00pm 10.00am-5.00pm
Maps and plans (Cartes et plans) 10.00am-6.00pm 10.00am-5.00pm
Prints and photographs
(Estampes et photographie)
10.00am-6.00pm 10.00am-5.00pm
Prints and photographs
(Estampes et photographie) - Reserve Room
Tuesday & Thursday 10.00am-12.00pm
Manuscripts (Manuscrits) 10.00am-6.00pm 10.00am-5.00pm
Coins, medals and antiques
(Monnaies, médailles et antiques)
10.00am-6.00pm 10.00am-5.00pm
Coins, medals and antiques
(Monnaies, médailles et antiques) - Museum
1.00pm-5.45pm 1.00pm-4.45pm
Sunday : 12.00pm-6.00pm

Documents from closed stack collections (Research library), must be requested at least one hour before the reading rooms close.

Louvois

The Music Department is open from Monday to Friday from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. and from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on Saturday.

Documents from closed stack collections must be requested at least one hour before the reading room closes.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013