国图艺术中心隶属国家图书馆，坐落于环境优雅、书香满溢的国家图书馆院内，西邻风景宜人的皇家园林紫竹院公园，北接引领创新的“中国硅谷”中关村，周边高校云集，人文荟萃。

国图艺术中心由音乐厅、电影厅和培训中心组成，建筑面积5000余平方米。音乐厅拥有世界一流的舞台、音响、灯光设备，能满足交响乐、戏剧、舞蹈等不同演出需求；剧场以建声环境设计优美为特色，均匀的声场分布，为展现艺术作品的经典魅力提供了有力支持；观众厅可容纳千余人，人性化的座椅设计，可供来宾在此舒适惬意地欣赏演出。

国图艺术中心作为国家图书馆的靓丽名片，以先进的硬件设施和高品位的服务水准体现国家图书馆“传承文明、服务社会”的办馆宗旨。多年来，中心基于国图的综合优势和文化底蕴，观照图书馆的社会教育职能，努力打造现代化的高雅艺术殿堂，不断推出国内外优秀经典演出，举办高品质的艺术教育，开展“高贵不贵”的艺术活动，以满足人民群众日益增长的文化需求。

未来国图艺术中心将不断探索以文化传播和艺术普及为主导，以品牌塑造和专业管理为牵引，以社会效益和经济效益相统一的运营之路，将中心培育成艺坛精英施展才华的理想舞台和社会公众提升文化素质的终身课堂。

Affiliated to National Library of China, National Library Arts Center is located inside the National Library, embracing its elegance and a hint of the academic, with Purple Bamboo Park, a scenic royal garden, to the west, and Zhongguancun, known as “China Silicon Valley”, to the north. Benefited from its unique geographical location, the Arts Center is surrounded by universities and gathered by talents. 

National Library Arts Center is composed of a concert hall, a movie house and a training center, with its construction area reaching over 5,000 square meters. With world-class stage, sound and lighting equipment, the concert hall accommodates more than a thousand people, and meets the performance needs by symphony, drama and dance. Further, the theater is characterized by the beautiful design of the sound environment and the distribution of sound field, which enhances the classic charm of performing art works. In addition, the seats are designed in line with ergonomic principle, which enable the audience to comfortably enjoy performing arts. 

Seen as a business card of National Library of China, National Library Arts Center functions perfectly to reflect the mission of National Library – civilization enrichment and social service. With its advanced facilities and high quality services, National Library Arts Center meets various cultural needs of the public. For years, thanks to its overall advantages and rich culture of National Library of China, with reference to its function of social education, the Arts Center has made all its efforts to build up a modern and elegant palace for arts, organizing many different outstanding classic performances from home and abroad, delivering high quality education on culture and arts, and making arts accessible to the public. As a result, the Arts Center serves its purpose to meet the growing cultural needs of local citizen. 

In the future, guided by the thoughts of cultural communication and arts popularization, led by the concept of brand building and professional management, alongside the road of operation with the unity of both social and economic benefits, the National Library Arts Center will explore a scientific way to develop itself into an ideal stage for art elites to demonstrate their artistic talents, and a life-time classroom for the public to improve their artistic accomplishments.