Enrich your mind inside Australia’s oldest library. There are galleries, reading rooms and more than six million objects such as books, manuscripts and maps. This summer, see the exhibition For All Time: Shakespeare in Print until February 24, 2024, marking the 400th anniversary of the scribe’s first collection of plays published in one volume.
State Library of NSW
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