Manager:
Andrzej Król
phone: + 48 61 85 68 121
e-mail: biblioteka@mnp.art.pl
Aleje Marcinkowskiego 9, 61-745 Poznań

The Reading Room of the National Museum in Poznan is located on the ground floor of the old Museum building.

Opening hours:
Mon – Fri 10.00 – 15.30

Order fulfillment takes place at full hours, up to 3PM.

In the reading room there is a reference library available.

There is no lending service in the library.

The fulfillment of orders from departmental and branch libraries of the Museum takes place after consultation with the librarian.

The beginnings of the National Museum Poznań Library date back to 1904, related to the opening of Kaiser Friedrich Museum. From the beginning, the library collection had a scientific character, which was consistently maintained during the functioning of the Great Poland Museum (1918) and currently. Journals and books in the field of art history, art theory, museology, monographs, exhibition catalogs, collections and auctions, publications related to military science, numismatics, sculpture, architecture, conservation, ethnography, musicology, and the decorative arts are collected. Among Polish and foreign titles, part of them has been collected since their first publication. The library serves primarily the museum staff and is also available to external people in the Reading Room. The library collection includes about 74,900 titles (September 2022). The catalog of the entire collection is located in the library in the old museum building.

Copying library materials is possible in very limited scope, only upon agreement with the librarian.

Catalogues:

• Alphabetical Catalog of Compact Prints
• Systematic catalogue of bound prints
• Alphabetical Catalog of Periodicals