On 19 March 2026 Caroline Savage, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the Embassy of the United States in Budapest, paid an official visit to our library.
On 20 March 2026, at a press event, the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) announced that it has made freely accessible, via the Copia digital platform, more than 2,600 manuscript items from the Bártfa Collection, which contains outstanding source material of 16th–17th century European sacred music.
We invite our visitors on a journey inspired by the novel of Mór Jókai at the National Library’s temporary exhibition between 31 March and 30 June 2026.
During cataloguing work in the Early Printed Books Archive of the National Széchényi Library, a unique discovery was made: a particularly rare and exceptionally early incunable, a parchment-printed fragment of the so-called 36-line Bible, was identified by the young researcher of the library, Márton Szovák.
The new extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the United Kingdom to Hungary, and member of the governing body of the National Library of Scotland, paid an official visit to the National Széchényi Library on 14 January 2026.
On 17 December 2025, Hwang Won, Minister-Counsellor and newly appointed diplomat of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Hungary, paid an official visit to the National Széchényi Library.
On Thursday, 11 December 2025, a delegation from the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Hungary paid an official visit to the National Széchényi Library.
The temporary exhibition “I Write a Poem as It Comes” – Structural Games, Constructions. Constructive Games, Structures is open to visitors until 31st March 2026.