What each library offers
Visit the real place first
A photographic panorama, a measured 3D capture, an official tour, or a labelled reconstruction: each library says exactly what it offers. Candidate scans are not presented as finished walkthroughs.
- Libraries
- 52
- Real interior 360
- 3
- Real exterior 360
- 3
- Candidate 3D assets
- 4
- Needs catalogue links
- 15
Rococo Hall, Anna Amalia Library
Weimar, Germany
Real interior 360 7 credited photographs · 9 catalogue records
12 real interior panoramas on WorldLibs.
1 real interior panorama on WorldLibs.
Prunksaal, Austrian National Library
Vienna, Austria
Real interior 360 6 credited photographs · 125 catalogue records
1 real interior panorama on WorldLibs.
State Hall 360-degree online tour ↗
Austrian National Library · external, view only5 real exterior panoramas on WorldLibs.
Peabody 360: high-resolution interior tour ↗
Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries · external, view onlyLabrouste Reading Room, BnF
Paris, France
Real exterior 360 7 credited photographs · 1208 catalogue records
5 real exterior panoramas on WorldLibs.
Vasconcelos Library
Mexico City, Mexico
Real exterior 360 7 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
1 real exterior panorama on WorldLibs.
Abbey Library of St Gall
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 84 catalogue records
Reconstruction, imagined
Bates Hall, Boston Public Library
Boston, USA
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 272 catalogue records
Biblioteca Malatestiana reading desks ↗
Candidate: permission-required · No reuse licence verifiedBiblioteca Palafoxiana
Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
Reconstruction, imagined
Connemara Public Library
Egmore, Chennai, India
Photographs 6 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
Duke Humfrey's Library, Bodleian
Oxford, England
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 1534 catalogue records
El Escorial library
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 58 catalogue records
Hereford Cathedral Chained Library
Hereford, England
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
House of Wisdom
Round city of Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate
Photographs 2 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
Library Cave (Cave 17)
Dunhuang, China
Official or linked tour 7 credited photographs · 3 catalogue records
Digital Library Cave ↗
Dunhuang Academy and Tencent · external, view onlyReconstruction, imagined
Reconstruction, imagined
Library of Ashurbanipal
Nineveh, near Mosul, Iraq
Reconstruction 6 credited photographs · 3 catalogue records
Reconstruction, imagined
Library of Celsus crowdsourced photogrammetry ↗
Candidate: candidate · CC BY 4.0Reconstruction, imagined
Library of Congress Main Reading Room
Washington DC, USA
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 245 catalogue records
Reconstruction, imagined
Long Room, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
Official or linked tour 7 credited photographs · 19 catalogue records
Trinity College campus tour, including the Long Room ↗
threesixty.tours · external, view onlyNational Palace of Mafra point cloud ↗
Candidate: review · CC BY 4.0McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi
Nairobi, Kenya
Photographs 3 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
Reconstruction, imagined
Real Gabinete Português de Leitura
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 4 catalogue records
Rose Main Reading Room, NYPL
New York, USA
Official or linked tour 7 credited photographs · 21 catalogue records
Hidden Secrets of the New York Public Library ↗
Architectural Digest · external, view onlyState Library Victoria
City of Melbourne, Australia
Real captured 3D 6 credited photographs · 6 catalogue records
La Trobe Reading Room photogrammetry mesh ↗
Candidate: ready · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Strahov Library, Philosophical Hall
Prague, Czechia
Photographs 7 credited photographs · 4 catalogue records
The Morgan Library, McKim Building
New York, USA
Photographs 8 credited photographs · 45 catalogue records
Tian Yi Ge
Ningbo, People's Republic of China
Photographs 6 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
Tianjin Binhai Library
Tianjin, People's Republic of China
Photographs 4 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
Vikramaśīla University
Bhagalpur district, India
Reconstruction 7 credited photographs · 0 catalogue records
Reconstruction, imagined
Reconstruction, imagined
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Candidate 3D assets and their rights
These are research leads, not shipped rooms. A mesh is not a Gaussian splat, a point cloud is not necessarily a complete interior, and a model page is not permission to reuse its files.
| Library and asset | Form and scope | Status | Licence | What remains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Trobe Reading Room photogrammetry mesh ↗ University of Melbourne Digitisation | mesh · interior 670 source photographs | ready | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Ready: the 65.37 MB source was optimized to a 5.92 MB Draco GLB with WebP textures, aligned to floor level, and checked in the browser. It remains a draft capture with some holes and green camera markers. NonCommercial and ShareAlike apply. Sketchfab and the GLB name CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; Zenodo's DataCite metadata names 2.0, so the version discrepancy is retained here rather than hidden. |
| Library of Celsus crowdsourced photogrammetry ↗ Miguel Bandera | mesh · exterior 200 source photographs | candidate | CC BY 4.0 | Real exterior ruin only. The model is marked NoAI: do not use it as generative training input. Candidate until a downloadable file and alignment are verified. |
| National Palace of Mafra point cloud ↗ Museus e Monumentos de Portugal | point-cloud · unknown | review | CC BY 4.0 | The official account provides 11.1M vertices but no description. Do not call this a library-interior capture until the room coverage is inspected. |
| Biblioteca Malatestiana reading desks ↗ ZeuxisVR | mesh · interior-detail | permission-required | No reuse licence verified | Potentially useful captured detail, not a complete room tour. Permission is required before reuse. |
How a capture becomes a visit
- Check that photography and the intended sharing are permitted, and that identifiable people have consented.
- Record the creator, date, room, viewpoints, licence, and any measured plan or scale reference.
- For free movement, capture overlapping views from many positions. One photograph supports a photograph with generated depth, not an accurate room.
- WorldLibs checks identity and rights before choosing 360, textured mesh, or Gaussian splat delivery. Unverified and unlicensed assets stay out.