British Library

The British Library is considered the world's largest national library in terms of collection size, hosting more than 170 million items. The library, which separated from the British Museum in 1973 and became an independent institution, operates in its iconic red brick building in the St Pancras district of London. It is a "legal deposit" library to which a copy of every work published in the United Kingdom and Ireland must be sent. This huge archive, whose shelves increase by kilometers every year; It contains an enormous variety, ranging from bones dating back to 2000 BC, to digital data, from maps to stamp collections. Among the most valuable pieces of his collection, called "Treasures", are the Magna Carta, the Gutenberg Bible, the Lindisfarne Bibles, Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks (Arundel Codex), Shakespeare's first folio and the handwritten lyrics of the Beatles.