A cultural center or cultural centre is an organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts. Cultural centers can be neighborhood community arts organizations, private facilities, government-sponsored, or activist-run.
Ketagalan Culture Center in Taiwan.
House of Culture Dúbravka in Bratislava, Slovakia
The Cultural Centre of the Old Customs House in Tampere, Finland
Chicago Cultural Center
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria, once one of the largest libraries worldwide, which was lost in antiquity. The idea of reviving the old library dates back to 1974 when a committee set up by Alexandria University selected a plot of land for its new library. Construction work began in 1995, and after some US$220 million had been spent, the complex was officially inaugurated on 16 October 2002. In 2009, the library received a donation of 500,000 books from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The gift makes the Bibliotheca Alexandrina the sixth-largest Francophone library in the world.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Mediterranean Sea side / northern exterior of the modernistic architecture of the Biblioteca Alessandrina Library, in Alexandria, Egypt. (photo: October 2020)
Inside the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, built during the 1990s on the Mediterranean Sea coastline, near the harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, opened October 2002.
