Founder Carl Berendt Lorck | Phone +49 341 22710 | |
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Former name Deutsches Buchgewerbe-Museum Established 29 October 1884 (1884-10-29) Website dnb.de/EN/DBSM/dbsm_node.html Address Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Deutscher Pl. 1, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Hours Closed today SundayClosedMonday9AM–10PMTuesday9AM–10PMWednesday9AM–10PMThursday9AM–10PMFriday9AM–10PMSaturday10AM–6PM Similar Museum für Druckkunst, Monument to the Battle of t, Altes Rathaus, Schillerhaus, Grassi Museum | ||
German Museum of Books and Writing (German: Deutsche Buch- und Schriftmuseum (DBSM)) in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1884 as Deutsches Buchgewerbe-Museum, is the world's oldest museum of its kind, dedicated to collecting and preserving objects and documents as well as literature connected with the history of books, including paper, printing techniques, the art of illustration, and bookbinding. The museum is housed in a modern €60 million annex to the German National Library in Leipzig build in 2011.
The museum acquired in 1886 the entire book collection of Heinrich Klemm, which he had sold to the Kingdom of Saxony the year before. A rare copy of a 42-line Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum was among the books in the collection. At the end of World War II, the Bible was taken as war booty and transferred to the Russian State Library in Moscow, where it remains today.