Library of the Übersee-Museum

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The library of the Übersee-Museum in Bremen is a scientific reference library in the Übersee-Museum , which is also accessible to the public. It is located near the main train station, entrance at Hugo-Schauinsland-Platz 1.

The library goes back to the Physical Society founded in 1776 and the Museum Society , which was founded in 1783, since 1876 called Municipal Collections for Natural History and Ethnography . The aim of the company from the beginning was to acquire a library. This is why travelogues by James Cook , published in 1785, or a description of some less well-known sea animals and their characteristics published by Johann Babtist Bohadsch in 1776 have found their way into today's populations. This old stock amounted to 3500 titles. The museum and with it the library was founded on January 15, 1896, at that time still under the name of the Municipal Museum for Natural, Ethnic and Commercial Studies . It brought together exhibits from the commercial and industrial exhibition of 1890. These were joined by foundations from the Natural Science Association , the Geographical Society, the Anthropological Commission and the Bremen branch of the German Colonial Society . A small reading room was set up as early as 1898. In 1904 the stock of 4,570 volumes was used by 3,418 visitors. In 1910 the magazine Die Güldenkammer donated 334 volumes on biology to the house. By 1919 the collection had grown to 9,000 volumes thanks to donations from Bremen merchants. Under the second director of the museum, Carl Friedrich Roewer , who was in office from 1933, the library was reorganized, and the increased budget was mainly used for specialist journals.

The connection to the Übersee-Museum means that the specialist departments represented in the house have been determining the acquisition strategy for a long time; conversely, the history of the house is reflected in the holdings. The stock grew to 60,000 monographs and journal volumes from ethnology , the natural sciences, but also from trade and colonial history . At the same time, the library (as of 2020) exchanges scientific documents with 449 partner institutions.

literature

  • Patricia Salabert: Library of the Übersee-Museum , in: Alwin Müller-Jerina (Ed.), Karen Kloth: Handbook of the historical book collections. Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen , Olms-Weidmann, 1996, pp. 324-326.
  • Herbert Abel : From the rarity cabinet to the Bremen overseas museum. The history of a Hanseatic collection from overseas on the occasion of its 75th anniversary , Bremen 1970.

Web links

  • Library , website of the Übersee-Museum

Remarks

  1. ↑ Alwin Müller-Jerina, Karen Kloth: Handbook of historical book stocks. Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen , Olms-Weidmann, 1996, p. 285.
  2. ^ Helga Lengenfelder: Handbook of the libraries. Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland , Vol. 1, Saur, 1984, p. 52.
  3. ^ Markus Walz: Handbook Museum. History, tasks, perspectives , Metzler, Stuttgart 2016, p. 114.
  4. ↑ Alwin Müller-Jerina, Karen Kloth: Handbook of historical book stocks. Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen , Olms-Weidmann, 1996, pp. 324-326.

Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 38 ″  E