Natural History Central Library Dresden
The Natural History Central Library in Dresden is a specialist library with a focus on mineralogy , geology and zoology . It belongs to the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden and is the second largest public library in the city after the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library.
The central library comprises more than 110,000 monographs and series of journals from the above-mentioned subject areas and is therefore one of the most important specialist libraries of its kind in Germany.
It emerged from the libraries of two Dresden museums. In 1999 the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and the Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie Dresden moved into a joint new depot and administration building in the northern Dresden district of Klotzsche . This so-called Adolf-Bernhard-Meyer- Building, named after a former director of the Tierkundemuseum, has since housed common rooms for both museum libraries on its first floor. After a statute for the reestablishment of the natural history collections was signed on June 5 , 2000, the libraries also merged on July 1, 2000 and today belong with the natural history collections to the Senckenberg Society for Natural Research in Frankfurt am Main .
Today the library consists of the two departments Mineralogy and Geology as well as Zoology . It is located at Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159 and is open three days a week.
Web links
- Senckenberg Library Natural History Collections Dresden
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 44 ″ N , 13 ° 47 ′ 24 ″ E