Book Museum of the SLUB Dresden

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The book museum is located on the second floor of the SLUB Dresden building that is visible from Hauptstraße .
Exhibit in the Zimelienzimmer

The Book Museum of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library is a traditional literature museum in Dresden . It emerged from the Zimelienzimmer of the Royal Saxon Library .

Location

The book museum is located in the SLUB Dresden building on Zellescher Weg in the Räcknitz district . There are other Dresden museums in the vicinity with the collections and art holdings of the TU Dresden and the Münchner Platz memorial .

history

Sheet of the Codex Dresdensis
Exhibit in the Zimelienzimmer
Exhibits in the Zimelienzimmer

The Royal Library has been open to the public since 1788, two years after moving from the Zwinger to the Japanese Palace . The associated high number of visitors caused progressive wear and tear on individual, particularly well-known and therefore often used books, which made protective measures necessary. Under the senior librarian Konstantin Karl Falkenstein , these often very valuable books were therefore moved to the manuscript room in 1835, which was later called the Zimelienzimmer , and from then on only displayed under glass lintels. Today's book museum traces its tradition back to this.

Exactly a century later, the librarian Erhart Kästner completed a book museum around the Zimelienzimmer under Martin Bollert's directorate , which he had been working on for several years. Even then it was partially conceived as a location for permanent and thematic temporary exhibitions. As a result of the air raids on Dresden in 1945, the Japanese Palace and with it the Book Museum burned out completely. Many of the objects were damaged or destroyed at the time.

After the Second World War , the library moved in 1947 to a temporary barracks building on Marienallee in Albertstadt . The book museum was reopened here in 1952. In 1993 the book museum was redesigned and a room was set up again. In addition, two rooms were available for special exhibitions. Because of the upcoming move, the book museum was temporarily closed in 2002.

On January 14, 2003, the book museum reopened in the new building of the state library on the TU campus, which has meanwhile merged with the Dresden university library to form SLUB Dresden . Its new and representative rooms were planned from the start so that they could be used as a museum.

exhibition

The book museum exhibition is located in the north of the two above-ground blocks of the SLUB building . As a special collection, it does not belong to the library's open access and magazine holdings and is divided into two parts: a permanent exhibition in the so-called treasury and an area for changing exhibitions. Overall, the museum documents more than a millennium of book history.

Treasury

The treasury of the book museum contains particularly valuable pieces from the SLUB's holdings. The most scientifically and historically significant exhibit is the Codex Dresdensis , a Maya manuscript acquired in 1739 by Elector Friedrich August II for his collection . It is dated around AD 1200 and is one of the four surviving codices of this type in the world.

The changing tableaus of the treasury can be viewed on the library website.

literature

  • Deckert, Helmut, among others: The new book museum of the Saxon State Library. In: Sächsische Landesbibliothek Dresden 1556–1956. Leipzig 1956.
  • Kästner, Erhart: The house museum of the Dresden library. In: Journal for Book Lovers, Issue 1. Leipzig 1936.
  • Nitzschke, Katrin: The book museum in the new building. In: SLUB-Kurier, issue 1. Dresden 2002.

Web links

Commons : Book Museum of the SLUB Dresden  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 43 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 13 ″  E