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Turku City Library
Turku City Library ( fi, Turun kaupunginkirjasto, sv, Åbo stadsbibliotek) is a municipal public library in Turku. Turku Main Library, The Main Library is located in the VI District, Turku, VI District at City Centre, Turku, the city centre. The Turku City Library also operates several Library branch, branch libraries and two Bookmobile, mobile libraries. It is part of the Vaski Libraries, Vaski library network, which is a consolidation of 18 public libraries in the Southwest Finland region. The library traces its roots to the 1860s, when a privately funded People's library (Finland), people's library and an academic oriented city library were established in Turku. The municipality of Turku soon took over operating both libraries, and in 1912 they were merged to form the Turku City Library. The Turku City Library is a regionally significant library and one of the largest public libraries in Finland. It has had a Libraries with regional development responsibility, regional develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turku Main Library
Turku Main Library ( fi, Turun kaupunginkirjaston pääkirjasto, sv, Åbo huvudbibliotek) is the chief branch of Turku City Library, located in the city centre of Turku, Finland. The library is approximately 8,500 m². Old building The Turku Main Library 2,900 m² old building is a Dutch late Renaissance style building, constructed in 1903, built and delivered by Turku commercial counsellor Fredric von Rettig and designed by Karl August Wrede. The design was based on a Swedish House of Nobility in Stockholm. The first floor was a national library for the working class and the second was the city library for academics. These two libraries merged in 1912 to become Turku City Library. This library at the time was the third in Finland. Before there was a library in Turku, the only places to get books from a building was in Helsinki and Rauma. New building Turku City Library expanded its operations and moved to a newly constructed building in 2007. The old building was renovated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turun Kirjastorakennus
Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; 1634–1997). The region was originally called Suomi (Finland), which later became the name for the whole country. As of 31 March 2021, the population of Turku was 194,244 making it the sixth largest city in Finland after Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Vantaa and Oulu. There were 281,108 inhabitants living in the Turku Central Locality, ranking it as the third largest urban area in Finland after the Capital Region area and Tampere Central Locality. The city is officially bilingual as percent of its population identify Swedish as a mother-tongue. It is unknown when Turku gained city rights. The Pope Gregory IX first mentioned the town ''Aboa'' in his ''Bulla'' in 1229 and the year is now used as the foundation year of Turku. Turku is the olde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
