AUSTRALIA-SYDNEY-LIBRARY-SHAKESPEARE ROOM-DAILY OPENING

AUSTRALIA-SYDNEY-LIBRARY-SHAKESPEARE ROOM-DAILY OPENING

(230424) -- SYDNEY, April 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Visitors walk past the sign of the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, on April 24, 2023. As the oldest library in Australia, the State Library of New South Wales (NSW) on Monday started opening Shakespeare Room seven days a week to the public for the first time in its history. Welcoming visitors in a social media post, the NSW State Library said that the Tudor-style room, opened in the early 1940s, was built to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. (Photo by Hu Jingchen/Xinhua)

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