Literature Museum

Scottish Writers' Museum in Edinburgh

A literature museum collects, maintains and presents testimonials about authors of literary life, literary topics and literary productions. Such museums are often located in a former place of residence and work of an author, which, if it has been preserved as a whole or in parts, can become a museum object itself. Collections from collectors or certain libraries can also be the starting point for establishing a literature museum.

Related terms

A literary museum that only consists of a single room is usually referred to as a "literary memorial" or "literary memorial room".

Thematic breadth

As a rule, literary museums are dedicated to individual, sometimes to several, writers.

Choice of location

A distinction is made between internal and external literary museums depending on whether or not a writer lived (or stayed) in the building in question. Decisive for the choice of the location of a literature museum are among other things

the space required for the exhibition (including accompanying infrastructure),
the number of visitors,
the access routes and parking facilities as well
the ownership structure of the building.

Remarks

↑ Examples of collective literary museums are the Writers' Museum edinburgh.gov.uk ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Scottish capital Edinburgh and the Dublin Writers Museum writersmuseum.com in the Irish capital Dublin . The former is dedicated to the three most important writers and poets in the country - Robert Burns (1759–1796), Walter Scott (1771–1832) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). The Dublin Writers Museum, on the other hand, provides an overview of the entire history of Irish literature and thus has a much wider perspective than its counterpart in Edinburgh. @1@ 2

↑ Examples of internal literary museums are the museum in the birthplace of the poet Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794) in Molmerswende ( Saxony-Anhalt ) and the memorial room in the birthplace of the poet Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) in Achstetten-Oberholzheim ( Baden-Württemberg ). - An example of an external literature museum is the Hermann-Hesse-Museum in Calw ( Baden-Württemberg ). For reasons of space, among other things, it is about 100 meters from the birthplace (Marktplatz 6) of the writer and poet Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) in a spacious patrician house (Marktplatz 30).

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Association of Literary Societies and Memorials V. (ALG) (Ed.): Literature on site. Literary societies, museums and memorials . Directmedia, Berlin 2007, CD-ROM, ISBN 978-3-89853-537-3
Christiane Kussin (ed.): Poets' houses in change. What do literary museums and literary exhibitions look like in the future? Working Group of Literary Societies and Memorials, Berlin 2001
Georg Schwedt : Literature museums. Houses, collections, literary cabinets . Callwey, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7667-1185-7

[1] Examples of collective literary museums are the Writers' Museum edinburgh.gov.uk ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Scottish capital Edinburgh and the Dublin Writers Museum writersmuseum.com in the Irish capital Dublin . The former is dedicated to the three most important writers and poets in the country - Robert Burns (1759–1796), Walter Scott (1771–1832) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). The Dublin Writers Museum, on the other hand, provides an overview of the entire history of Irish literature and thus has a much wider perspective than its counterpart in Edinburgh. @1@ 2

[2] Examples of internal literary museums are the museum in the birthplace of the poet Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794) in Molmerswende ( Saxony-Anhalt ) and the memorial room in the birthplace of the poet Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) in Achstetten-Oberholzheim ( Baden-Württemberg ). - An example of an external literature museum is the Hermann-Hesse-Museum in Calw ( Baden-Württemberg ). For reasons of space, among other things, it is about 100 meters from the birthplace (Marktplatz 6) of the writer and poet Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) in a spacious patrician house (Marktplatz 30).