Key facts
- Address
- Kista bibliotek, 164 42 KistaMap and directions
- Price
- A library card is free.
- Access
- Hearing loop. The library says its premises are adapted for people with disabilities. One entrance, nearest the street at Färögatan 30, has a lift. Hearing loops are at the information desk and by the stage seating area and Blackbox.
- Website
- biblioteket.stockholm.se
- Phone
- +46850830900
Facts checked November 2026.
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Kista library is inside Kista Galleria and is Stockholm’s second-largest library, according to the library’s website. It opened in 2014; Visit Stockholm says it received IFLA’s award for the world’s best public library in 2015. The collection includes books and magazines. The library has 16 bookable study rooms, with space for up to six people per room. You can book one room per day for up to four hours. A computer zone outside the library has 10 drop-in computers, with internet use limited to 60 minutes a day. There are also four computers for searching the catalogue and an internet computer at the information desk.
The event listing includes “Curious about chess?” from 16 October through 31 December 2026, 10:00–20:00, for adults and young people. A Swedish-language conversation café for adults is listed for Tuesday, 3 November, from 13:00 to 14:30. A library card is free and needed to borrow or reserve books; it also gives access to e-books and audiobooks through the Biblio app. The library is cashless and accepts cards or Swish. Its Wi-Fi is unencrypted, and all activity on it is logged.
Good to know
Book study rooms online: one booking per day, for up to four hours, and no more than two bookings at a time. The entrance nearest the street, at Färögatan 30, has a lift; both entrances have escalators.
Get there
Kista bibliotek, Kista
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