Weltkulturen Library
The Weltkulturen Museum library, in its wonderful rooms in the riverside villa at Schaumainkai 35, offers an unique place to read and work.
The library offers a wide spectrum of German and foreign-language scholarly works and materials on ethnology, religion, music, art and museology. The holdings reflect the focus of the Weltkulturen Museum’s different departments – Africa, the Americas, Oceania and South East Asia. Carefully selected books and journals also provide a greater insight into the specific topics and themes dealt with in the current exhibitions.
The library’s outstanding features include a collection of publications on contemporary art outside the western world. In addition, the holdings offer a range of key scholarly journals (e.g. Anthropos, Baessler-Archiv, Current Anthropology, Third Text), books for children and young adults, as well as sound and audio recordings.
As a reference library, the holdings are not available on loan, but they can be viewed in the reading room and copied. The library is also open to the general public.
You can browse the entire library collection as well as the other Frankfurt museum libraries in the centralized database of the Association of Frankfurt Museum Libraries.
NIGHT OF THE LIBRARIES Friday, 4 April, 6-9pm
For the first time, the Night of Libraries is taking place nationwide and the Weltkulturen Bibliothek is part of it. The library in the Villa am Schaumainkai 35 will be open from 6pm to 9pm and you can expect guided library tours, a workshop on ‘The Power of Maps’ and a book flea market with non-European fiction.
The programme at a glance:
18:30-20:00 "The power of maps" Workshop for adults
Who creates world maps? Which maps do we know? And what influence do maps have on how we see the world? In this workshop, we will look at various map models from the past to the present and scrutinise them for the stories and world views they contain. Free of charge, with registration
18:00 - 21:00 Book flea market.
18:30 and 20:30 Guided tour of the library.
