Exhibitions | Book Museum

Whether a photographic snapshot, a centuries-old parchment manuscript, a sonorous sheet of music or moving images from the early days of film - at the SLUB Book Museum we present treasures and discoveries from our diverse collections. Visit us on sight or browse through our exhibition archive! Admission to all exhibitions and events is free.

Photographs on the wall, impression from the current anniversary exhibition of the Deutsche Fotothek
Large-format colourful photographs by Ingolf Thiel in the SLUB Book Museum

In the Book Museum on the 2nd floor of the SLUB Central Library, we regularly show changing exhibitions. This year, our anniversary exhibitions to mark the 100th anniversary of the Deutsche Fotothek can be seen there. In addition, the Dresden Mayan manuscript is on permanent display in the Treasury.

 

100 years of the Deutsche Fotothek

1 anniversary year | 7 exhibitions

26.01.2024 - 11.01.2025

Book Museum | Gallery at the Reading Room | Bib-Lounge

 

 

The Maya Manuscript in Dresden

Permanently on display in the Treasury

Geplante Ausstellungen

  • Ausstellung zur Bibliothek von Kloster St. Marienthal (29. Januar bis 17. Mai 2025)
  • Ausstellung „Schicksalhafte Seiten“, virtuelle Fortsetzung bei der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek (ab 2025)
  • Ausstellung zum Deutschen Archiv der Kulinarik (ab 13. Juni 2025)

Contact and opening hours

Book museum and treasury 
SLUB Central Library , 2. floor
Zellescher Weg 18
01069 Dresden

Contact persons: Dr. Karina Iwe and Dr. Edith Schriefl
Tel.: +49 351 4677-568 und -580
Fax: +49 351 4677-733
E-Mail: Buchmuseum@slub-dresden.de

Opening hours of the book museum
Monday - Friday 10:00-18:00
Saturday & 1. Sunday of the month 14:00-18:00

Free admission

 

Please note that for filming in the Book Museum as well as in other rooms of the SLUB you need a filming permit. filming permit Are you interested in filming an object from our collection in your exhibition? Here you will find information on Loan requests.

Our events and next guided tours

Interim Library Bergstrasse

Exhibitions at other SLUB locations

We also regularly organise exhibitions on various topics in the other branch libraries of the SLUB. Currently on display in the break room of the August-Bebel-Straße/ TextLab library is Verbotene Stimmen. Life in the Third Reich from the perspective of censored artists. This exhibition, which runs until 15 August 2024, focuses on the writings of Käthe Kollwitz, Erich Kästner, Victor Klemperer and Thomas Mann during censorship in the Third Reich. The focus is on their thoughts and way of life between 1933 and 1945 as well as the works they created during this period.

More about the exhibition

Virtual exhibitions

  • Mind the Gap: Of stolen books, fair solutions ... and gaps

    Mind the Gap: Of stolen books, fair solutions ... and gaps

    Why should the provenance of a book be questioned? When is it a "suspicious" provenance, because the book may have been looted during the Nazi era? How can you reconstruct the path of a book and identify its original owner? What happens afterwards? The virtual exhibition on research into Nazi-looted property at the SLUB has answers to all these questions

  • Wolfram Siebeck and the "Deutsches Küchenwunder"

    Wolfram Siebeck and the "Deutsches Küchenwunder"

    No one has "changed the country's culture of living more", wrote "Die Zeit" in a special issue on Wolfram Siebeck's (1928-2016) 80th birthday in 2008. SLUB and TU Dresden have dedicated an online exhibition to the gourmet icon and the gourmet gastronomy of the 1970s and 1980s.

  • 95 autographs from the Reformation era

    95 autographs from the Reformation era

    On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther protested against the sale of indulgences with his 95 theses and triggered a comprehensive reformation of church and state. The monk and pastor, the rebel and reformer changed the world like no other. This online exhibition with 95 original manuscripts from the SLUB's large collection of Reformation sources was created to mark the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.

  • The Maya Manuscript in Dresden

    The Maya Manuscript in Dresden

    Since its acquisition in 1739, this oldest surviving Mayan book in the SLUB has been the subject of numerous studies and interpretations and the destination of countless tourists from all over the world. Its history, its characters, its language, its figures and its images still hold many secrets. The virtual exhibition conveys the history, content and significance of this unique key document for Mayan culture.