This is not Umberto Eco's library. In reality it's in Maryland, and belonged to prof. Richard A. Macksey who was Professor of Humanities and longtime Director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Very, very occasionally though, a famous person's library *does* in fact look exactly just how you hope it would look - this was Karl Lagerfeld's library.
...er, actually this *is* Europe. It's in reality the Library Hall of the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, situated in GΓΆrlitz, Germany.
Contrary to many Google and Facebook results, this is *also* not the Makhdoom Bilawal Library Islamkot in Pakistan. It's the interior of a restaurant in Switzerland: the Wine Library, at the B2 Boutique Hotel, Zurich.
This Twitter member claimed *both* the wildly different sets of photos above were the Makhdoom Bilawal Library Islamkot in Pakistan IN THE SAME TWEET.π§π€£
...and was in turn retweeted and copied by others, perpetuating the fake news....
Real libraries are fascinating enough, without any need for fake attributions. Ernest Hemingway's library at Finca VigΓa, his home in San Francisco de Paula Ward in Havana, had, as you might expect, a higher than usual "dead animals to books" ratio.
Until know, for reasons of personal privacy and security, I've never shared a photo of my library at home, but if Bill Gates can do it, well then so can I. This is the Incunabula Library.
The same photo, this time described as JK Rowling's library. Amusingly, it's *also* not Elon Musk's house on the left, this house in La Jolla belongs to Alicia Keys.
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