We manage the oldest collections of printed books in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich – almost 300,000 volumes published prior to 1850. Rare items from th...
The Department of Prints and Drawings and Photo Archive contain some 1.25 million objects from the 15th to the 21st centuries. Together, they make up...
The manuscript collection preserves cultural memory in the form of manuscripts, archive materials and estates from medieval monastic culture through t...
We preserve maps and related depictions of the whole world from the early modern era to the present day. Our collection is one of the largest of its k...
At the Zentralbibliothek you can borrow sheet music and listen to CDs and LPs. Old music scores and music manuscripts can be viewed in the High-Gothic...
“Turicensia” is a general term for everything related to Zurich’s cultural heritage. We collect media from 1800 onwards on the history, politics, econ...
A reference work on all books held in Swiss archives and libraries, the Handbook of Historic Bookholdings is a descriptive inventory of printed matter...
