Library

National Muzeum in Szczecin
Staromłyńska 27 St.
70-561 Szczecin
phone. (+48) 797 705 213 / 264
fax 91 43 15 204

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The Library of the National Museum in Szczecin collects scientific publications. Its holdings include books, periodicals and special collections – old prints (among others, related to Pomerania), manuscripts, documents of life of the society.

The library holdings amount to ca. ninety thousand volumes. They include Polish and foreign publications, most of all, related to the fields of:

  • art (including theory, history and reviews, museum collections catalogues, Polish and foreign exhibition catalogues, monographs on artists),
  • archaeology,
  • ethnography,
  • ethnology,
  • history,
  • numismatics,
  • museum studies,
  • relic protection and conservation,
  • a range of maritime issues,
  • related fields.

The library collectiion owns unique publications related to Pomerania (the 19th and the 20th centuries). They include: Pommersches Urkundenbuch (Stettin 1870–1990), Pomerania (Stettin 1844, 1946), Pommersche Genealogien (Greifswald 1873, 1878; Berlin 1878), M. Wehrmann, Die pommerschen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften in alter und neuer Zeit (Pyritz 1936), Stettiner Museumsverein (Stettin 1934, 1939), or Settin : [Neuere Bauten der Stadt Stettin] (Charlotenburg 1921) and periodicals: Baltische Studien, Monatsblätter, or Pommersches Heimatkalender. The library collection of old prints includes: D. Cramer, Das grosse Pomrische Kirchen Chronicon (Alten Stettin 1628), J. Micraelius, Altes Pommerland (Alten Stettin 1639), Agenda (…) für die Kirchen In Pommern (Alten Stettin 1691), Ch. Neubaurn, Vera architecturae militaris Praxis (Stargard in Pommern 1679) or Pommerscher Kriegs-Postillion (Leipzig 1677).

The Library of the National Museum in Szczecin is a member of Zachodniopomorskie Porozumienie Bibliotek (West-Pomeranian Library Association). Digital catalogue of the library is available on Zachodniopomorskim Systemie Informacji Region@lnej i N@ukowej RoKaBi (West-Pomeranian Regional and Scientific Information System RoKaBi). The Library cooperates with Zachodniopomorską Biblioteką Cyfrową ZBC (West-Pomeranian Digital Library).

Staff

Marta Kurzyńska (manager), mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Adriana Jędrzejczak, mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Reading room

Opening hours

  • Monday–Friday, 8.00–15.30

Offer:

  • wireless Internet,
  • two computers with the access to the Internet,

Collection access and reproduction

  • Readers from outside the Museum may use the collection in the reading room only,
  • outside borrowings are done on the basis of an inter-library form,
  • taking photographs with the reader's own equipment is allowed, unless the objects are not subject to special protection.

Catalogues

Digital catalogues of the Library are in use since November 2012. They fully cover the newest acquirements only. Retrospective records are being made systematically according to the possibilities of the Library. Monthly lists of acquisitions are uploaded in the catalogue site: Wirtualne Półki ► Publ. Nowozainwent._ …

Catalogues

  • alphabetical card catalogue of books and periodicals,
  • subject card catalogue of the library holdings,
  • card catalogue of old prints,
  • on-line (KOHA.pl).

Bibliographical databases (own):

Digital databases:

Articles related to the Library

Presentations regarding the Library

Useful links

On-line catalogues of Polish libraries:

On-line catalogues of foreign libraries:

Western Pomerania

Varia: