Robert Lepage's The Library At Night

The Library at Night is an immersive and sensory virtual-reality journey that whisks you away to ten libraries, real or imagined, throughout time and across the globe – from Mexico to Japan, Copenhagen, Sarajevo and beyond.

Libraries are monuments of knowledge and ideas, and as the guardians of books they contain worlds within worlds. But what happens when the doors close and the lights go out? What lingers at the edges of what is known and understood?

At The Library at Night, you can unravel the mysteries for yourself. This virtual experience created by Robert Lepage and inspired by Alberto Manguel’s book of the same name immerses you in the wonder and whimsy of iconic and mythical libraries throughout history.

You will journey to and step inside Admont Abbey in Austria, Hasedera Temple in Japan, Captain Nemo’s library aboard the Nautilus from Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the National Library of Sarajevo in Bosnia, the Alexandria Library past and present, the Vasconcelos Library in a dry riverbed in Mexico, the library of Social Sciences of Copenhagen University, Canada’s Library of Parliament, the Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris, and the Library of Congress in Washington.

Coming to Toronto, The Library at Night will immerse you in these libraries like never before. Step inside, explore, discover.

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