Sumlen Restaurant

The restaurant is one floor down from the Entrance Level via the stairway located diagonally across from the Information and Circulation Desk. Cari Elfvengren and Ann Ericson are pleased to welcome library patrons and employees for lunch or coffee and pastry.

You may not take library materials into the restaurant.

Hours

Monday - Friday: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
Closed during summer: 19 June - 3 August

About the Restaurant Name

The National Library's lunch restaurant, Sumlen, is also the title of a manuscript volume (Fa 12) that contains a series of notebooks by Johannes Bureus, teacher of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and Georg Stiernhielm.

J. Bureus was the Royal Librarian at the palace from 1611 to 1634. The word "sumlen" was coined by Bureus and means something along the lines of "collection." The manuscript volume is a collection of Bureus’s research, passing fancies, dreams, and everyday observations. He left a great deal of notes, manuscripts, and records behind him.