Goya room
Winter schedule Rooms
Schedule
From Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 8 p.m
Direct request for documents: from Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Days of closure of services
Days of closure of services
Access
Ground floor South side
Email
sala.goya@bne.es
Telephone
+34 91 516 89 56/91 (Sala Goya)
+34 91 580 78 15 y +34 91 580 77 81 (Dibujos y grabados)
+34 91 580 78 13 (Cartografía)
+34 91 580 78 15 y +34 91 580 77 81 (Dibujos y grabados)
+34 91 580 78 13 (Cartografía)
Additional information
The eviction of the reading rooms start 15 minutes before closing time.
How to access the collections in this room
To consult the documents of any room, it is advisable to request in advance the documents that you would like to view.
The following types of documents cannot be requested in advance: drawings, engravings, photographs, ephemera, maps and plans. These items must be requested directly in the Room.
Exceptionally, justified requests made in advance for the original graphic and cartographic material (maps and plans, engravings, drawings, photographs and ephemera) may be considered. These requests should be sent to the Department of Fine Arts and Cartography at sala.goya@bne.es.
Advance requests for posters kept at the Alcalá Headquarters (AHC/ and AHCC/ catalogue numbers) will be made from the Library’s own online catalogue.
All rooms have free-access collections, which may be taken directly from the shelves. In general, they are reference works. You may consult which documents are available in free-access using the following search tool.
Search engine for free-access documents
Services
Services
Consultation computers
Wifi
Microfilme players
Documents / Links of interest
Colecciones
![[Habilitaciones.. Figuras alegóricas y mitológicas]](/sites/default/files/styles/bloque_colecciones_home_xxl/public/repositorio-imagenes/habilitaciones-alegorias-eph57_2.jpg?h=b90716f8&itok=C9V_7az6)
Ephemera
"extensive and varied range of pictorial developed with a specific purpose that their aim is to survive the timeliness of its message".
![[Invitaciones]](/sites/default/files/styles/bloque_colecciones_home_xxl/public/repositorio-imagenes/invitacion-eph549_0.jpg?h=e762a379&itok=ADU_TCye)
Private events
There are official in Ephemera with a well-defined: report on certain celebrations private normally nature.
Vehicles of written messages
Congratulations, papers charter flowing orlas, invoices and commercial letters and postcards belonging to the collection of Ephemera of bibliography fulfil their role as a means of transmission of a written message.
![[Tarjetas y prospectos de productos y establecimientos comerciales.. Varias figuras]](/sites/default/files/styles/bloque_colecciones_home_xxl/public/repositorio-imagenes/tarjetas-establecimientos-eph564_0.jpg?h=bc2362c7&itok=YcjOKn-8)
![[Etiquetas de alimentos.. Galletas y dulces]](/sites/default/files/styles/bloque_colecciones_home_xxl/public/repositorio-imagenes/etiquetas-alimentos-galletas.jpg?h=5a4239e9&itok=uY0ZU8ad)
Decorative purposes
The BNE retains a label proves excellent products consumed in the early decades of the twentieth century, such as canned fruit, sweets, spices, drinks, tobacco, weaving, cleaning products, print, etc.
Payful and entertainment purposes
As an example of games creation on paper for the more pure entertainment are magnificent collections that retains the BNE cutout of cards, and theatres.
![[Ex libris de Manuel Godoy]](/sites/default/files/styles/bloque_colecciones_home_xxl/public/repositorio-imagenes/exlibris-manuel-godoy_0.jpg?h=f14a2d90&itok=7rPgs3EV)
Ex Libris
Exceptional collection for the quality and quantity of their works, a spanish artists, but the majority of engravers foreigners were dedicated to this field of art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Advertising posters
The poster or commercial aims mainly at the sale of goods or the dissemination of an event or activity.
Posters of shows, parties and other events
The posters of spectacles experience a moment of glory in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the rise of the bourgeoisie, which you can dedicate more time and resources to leisure and cultural consumption.
Posters
The posters are documents with ephemeral nature, made to provide information about an event, to announce a new product or to persuade the masses to attending an event.
Circus photography
As they deal with the photographic portraits, for the variety of photographic processes which includes and not to disperse thematic collections, the BNE has acquired two collections of artists circus.
![[Proyecto para reforzar el fuste de la torre de la catedral de Salamanca]](/sites/default/files/styles/bloque_colecciones_home_xxl/public/repositorio-imagenes/B_002178_2.jpg?h=2384f31d&itok=qOtWgYbl)
Architectural drawings
Set of drawings made by some of the architects spaniards, italians, french or most important
Drawings
One of the most important collections in the country both for the quality and the volume of its works
![[Derrotero del Mediterráneo y costa atlántica]](/sites/default/files/styles/bloque_colecciones_home_xxl/public/repositorio-imagenes/derrotero-mediterraneo-vitr421_0.jpg?h=905d8f48&itok=p9VvvQ9E)
Maps manuscripts
The collection of manuscript maps of the Biblioteca Nacional is of great interest. Many of them, the most important, are in the Manuscripts Service, included in different works; also preserved are Portolan charts, maps and charts on separate sheets.
Printed/old maps
The documentary base of the Biblioteca Nacional Cartography Service are the holdings which came from the Biblioteca Real and the cartography collections of the former Geographical Office of the First Secretariat of State and the Universal Office.
![[Atlas de Battista Agnese]](/sites/default/files/styles/bloque_colecciones_home_xxl/public/repositorio-imagenes/atlas-battista-agnese-res-176-_0.jpg?h=0d6bb6a9&itok=rv7IM_g-)
Atlas and specialized works
Worthy of mention is the important collection of Flemish and Dutch, Italian, French and German atlases dating from the 16th to the 19th century, together with similar Spanish works from the 18th and 19th centuries, many of which are deluxe editions and other that are works of special value or rarities for different reasons.
Africa
Uncdf specialized in africa and arab world in general and of the protectorate of Spain in Morocco in particular
Latin America
The core of the modern Latin American holdings (which includes the Philippines for historical reasons) comprises the collection of the former Latin America Department, created in 1949 and dissolved in 1992.
Modern cartography
Since 1958, through the Copyright Library Act, the Biblioteca Nacional has received copies of all maps published. These are maps that are both loose sheets and forming a series, published by government agencies, public and private entities or Autonomous Communities.
Celestial maps
The collection of celestial maps for the BNE consists of a broad representation of case studies from earlier rows, tables or star catalogs, who tried to explain the regular movements of bright spots in the night sky, until the bulky atlas of the 17th to 19th centuries, period of the star atlas published more beautiful.
Travel and tourism posters
An important part of the collection of posters of the BNE is dedicated to travel and tourism: means of transport, accommodations and gastronomy, excursions, promotion of cultural attractions, etc.
Propaganda posters
Political ideas they will find the poster a medium through which attract followers and disseminate various positions before the events.
Engraving
The collection of engravings can be considered one of the most important of the country, both in quantity and quality. Retains works of the best artists, since the late fifteenth century until today.
French engraving
The National Library of Spain has a varied repertoire of recorded french belonging to the 17th and 18th centuries.