About the BNP
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Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Campo Grande, 83
1749-081 Lisboa

Portugal


Tel. 21 798 20 00
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diogo ramada curto_pThe National Library of Portugal (BNP) is the guardian of Portuguese bibliographic heritage.

 

Two hundred skilled professionals, including those from the Public Library of Évora, work with us. Every day, they seek to honour the memory of two institutions that, although created in the 18th century, look forward to the future by firmly committing themselves to a strategy of modernisation.

 

Our two main objectives are, on one hand, to rely on the involvement of everyone who works here in order to link the library to the most innovative information systems. On the other, it is to put ourselves on par with similar international institutions. In achieving these two objectives, we will fight for democratic procedures and do everything we can to further internationalise our institution. Our mission and sense of public service follow the BNP's ambition, which is not insignificant, to remain an institution of reference in the broader context of Portuguese culture.

 

 

Diogo Ramada Curto

Director-General