The New Library of Alexandria is a reconstruction of the Library of Alexandria, one of the largest libraries of its time The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is the fourth largest Francophonie library in the world, and the second largest library of its contents after the New York Library. The new library was opened in 2002. The library contains a number of media from different types of audio and visual and covers various topics, the Library of the Blind, and represents a new concept that opens wide horizons for the blind and visually impaired, enabling them to access all sources of the Library of Alexandria and the Internet. There is a library for children aged 6-14, The library offers you access to a number of different manuscripts and documents. In addition to the Egyptian daily newspapers from the date of their publication, you can visit the library of rare books and special collections. The Rare Books Reading Room contains a huge collection of rare books owned by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina 1920.
The bibliotheca contains 6 museums (the museum of archeology inside the library, and the museum collection includes different ages of Egyptian civilization from the beginning of the Pharaonic to the Islamic era through many other civilizations, including Greek, the museum exhibits about 1080 artifacts, the Manuscript Museum "is one of the academic centers attached to the new library The Museum of Microfilm, the museum exhibition section, the Museum of the History of Sciences, the Pharaonic Section, the Greek Section and the Department of Arabic and Islamic Sciences, the Museum of Rare Vessels, which contains the treasures of the holdings held in Tepe Alexandria, including original manuscripts, rare books, maps, ancient coins, collectibles personal celebrities).