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The Alexandrina Library, or the New Alexandria Library, is the largest scientific and cultural center located on the Mediterranean coast in Alexandria. The modern building was built on the site of the legendary library of Alexandria destroyed in ancient times. The Alexandria Library complex includes specialized libraries for the blind, teenagers and children, three museums, four art galleries, a planetarium, a manuscript restoration laboratory and a conference center.
The idea of building a complex on the site of the ancient Alexandria Library arose in the early 1970s and belonged to a group of professors at the University of Alexandria. The construction of the complex was completed only in 2001, in addition to the Egyptian authorities and the UNESCO World Fund, financial support for the project was provided by another 26 countries of the world.
The library is designed to store eight million books, the main reading room with an area of seventy thousand square meters is located at 11 cascading levels. The walls of the building are faced with Aswan granite, with graphemes from 120 different human writing systems carved on it. The collection of works in the Alexandrina Library was donated from around the world. The transmitted Spanish documents date back to the reign of the Moors. France handed over documents related to the construction of the Suez Canal. The unique exhibits of the Alexandria Library are on display at the Museum of Scientific History, the Museum of Antiquity and the Museum of Manuscripts.
