The Library is continually augmented and enlarged, adding books, audio-visual media, and artefacts selected to reflect the focus of the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s collections: Egyptology, Archaeology, Numismatics, ancient and modern Art History, the history of arms and armour, coach building and craftsmanship, musical instruments, history and cultural history.
Library
The Library of the Kunsthistorisches Museum is a reference library that comprises the libraries of the Museum’s different collections and departments, housing a total of around 256.000 volumes. The collection of historically important books numbers around 36.ooo titles. Its main focus is on incunabula, manuscripts, maps and historical prints relating to history, cultural history and art. It addition, it houses special collections such as the Library of Maximilian with its large group of pamphlets, or the Collection of Prints that comprises documents on the history of the architecture and the interior decoration of the former imperial collections.
About the Library
Researching the library’s digital collections
The media in our library can be ordered via the online catalog or by email and can be used on site.
Library holdings as of 2001
Library holdings up to the year 2000
The library’s digital holdings
The library is gradually making selected holdings available in digital form. Here you will find digital copies of the KHM Yearbook, older collection catalogs and works in the public domain:
Contact
The Library
Side entrance of the KHM, Burgring 5, 1010 Wien
Mon – Fri, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Please fill out the Reader Registration Form and register via email before your visit: bibliothek@khm.at
(Access is only possible with valid photo ID.)
Information about the Reader Account
Terms and Conditions of Use
Library Management
+43 1 525 24 – 5501
hanna.schneck@khm.at
Research an digital holdings
+43 1 525 24 – 5505
dominik.cobanoglu@khm.at
+43 1 525 24 – 5502
maja.gusavac@khm.at
Journals and book storage
+43 1 525 24 – 5503
roman.kaderabek@khm.at