King’s Library

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The King’s Library was one of the most important collections of books and pamphlets of the Age of Enlightenment. Assembled by George III, this scholarly library of over 65,000 volumes was subsequently given to the British nation by George IV. It was housed in a specially built gallery in The British Museum from 1827 to 1997 and now forms part of the British Library. The term ‘King’s Library’ was until recently also used to refer to the gallery in the British Museum built for the collection, which is now called the “Enlightenment Gallery” and displays a wide range of objects relating to the Enlightenment.
In the 1970s preparations began for the move of the Museum’s book collection to the newly established British Library. The Museum’s Trustees argued that the King’s Library should remain where it was, but were unsuccessful in preventing its transfer to the new institution. The collection is now housed in the King’s Library Tower, a six-storey glass and bronze structure in the British Library’s entrance hall; the tower was designed specially by the building’s architect, Colin St John Wilson, and also contains the Thomas Grenville collection. Items from the collection remain available for Reading by the public. The collection’s old home at the British Museum, restored in 2000-3, is now known as the Enlightenment Gallery and houses a permanent exhibition about the Age of Enlightenment, opened to celebrate the museum’s 250th anniversary in 2003.

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