History Exhibition
Bibliothèque du chapitre
Noyon
📚3,300+ books, some from the 15th century
🏛️One of the oldest surviving medieval wooden buildings
📅Only opens a few times yearly
A rare 1506 wooden library clinging to Noyon Cathedral, sheltering books that survived Gutenberg's lifetime and still bear bullet scars from centuries of war.
16th century wooden library
Gutenberg-era printed books
Historic bullet-scarred books
Rare book collection
History ExhibitionBibliothèque du chapitre
Noyon
📚3,300+ books, some from the 15th century
🏛️One of the oldest surviving medieval wooden buildings
📅Only opens a few times yearly
A rare 1506 wooden library clinging to Noyon Cathedral, sheltering books that survived Gutenberg's lifetime and still bear bullet scars from centuries of war.
16th century wooden library
Gutenberg-era printed books
Historic bullet-scarred books
Rare book collection