UNESCO releases collection from its World Digital Library

The extensive and rich collection brings together around 20 thousand articles by authors from 194 countries and territories, in 145 languages, including documents of cultural relevance about each member country of the organization, which are now accessible to students, specialists and the public. interested.

Content from libraries and other cultural institutions from all regions of the planet appears, based on UNESCO’s collaboration with 26 institutions from 19 countries, including museums, universities and national libraries of the largest Arabic, Chinese, English-speaking countries, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Images, photographs, newspapers, books, manuscripts, diaries and magazines, maps, sound recordings and films can be consulted in this digital repository created with the aim of promoting international and intercultural understanding and expanding the variety of cultural content on the Internet.

In its coffers, the World Digital Library treasures publications on topics linked to philosophy and psychology, natural sciences, mathematics, technology (applied sciences), literature and rhetoric, history and geography, fine arts – of the latter you can make queries about urban planning and landscaping, architecture, plastic arts, photography, music—, among others.