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Description [EN]
The Duchess Anna Amalia Library is a publicly accessible research library for literary and cultural history, with a focus on German literature around the year 1800. It preserves literary documents from the 9th to the 21st century as sources of cultural history and research, catalogues them based on formal and content criteria, and makes them available for lending and use. In total, the library´s collection comprises 1 million items. The historic library building damaged by fire in 2004, with its famous Rococo Hall, has reopened and can be visited every day (except Mondays) by up to 290 people. In the historic setting of the Renaissance Hall of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, the new exhibition "Cranach´s Flood of Images" has been dedicated since 2022 to the overwhelming number of paintings, graphics, book illustrations, and medals from the workshop of Cranach and his son. There is no medium that the court painter at the Saxon court did not master. His workshop created many thousands of images, making him the most productive artist of his time. Highlights such as the richly illuminated Weimar Luther Bible or the portrait of Princess Sibylle of Cleves as a bride are on display here. Insights into the private library of the Duchess Anna Amalia, the world´s largest Faust collection, or historical friendship books are offered by two newly designed cabinets in front of the Rococo Hall as of 2022. A tactile model invites visitors to experience the library campus in a sensory way. Newly available to explore are also the book tower and the military cabinet, which recalls the Napoleonic Wars and the knowledge of warfare.
Services
WiFi
vor Ort
Audioguides
kostenfrei an der Kasse ausleihbar oder über die App Weimar+ abrufbar: https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/digital/app/
Cafe/Restaurant
Cafeteria im Studienzentrum: Mo-Fr 11-14 Uhr
Museumsshop
https://www.museumshop-weimar.de/
Notes on using your smartphone or cameras
Fotografieren während der Öffnungszeiten und zu privaten Zwecken ist in den frei zugänglichen Bereichen problemlos und ohne Entrichtung einer Gebühr möglich. Die Veröffentlichung im Internet und in den Sozialen Medien auch über private Profile stellt jedoch nicht generell eine private Nutzung dar. Unter Umständen werden Urheberrechte verletzt.
Guided tours and group offers
Jeden So halbstündlich 15-17 Uhr | Stippvisite Rokokosaal
Accessibility
Access with ramp
Yes
Guidance system for visually impaired people, Tactile / acoustic map
No
Entrance soil indicators
No
Marking of step edges
Yes
Access stairless
Yes
Access with ramp
Yes
Elevator with tactile font / announcement
Yes
Disabled toilet
Yes
Tactile accessible exhibition objects
No
Print medium in braille inscription / large print
No
Tactile flooring system
No
Barrier-free Audioguides
No