Exhibitions | Book Museum

Since 2011, the SLUB has been systematically checking its holdings for illegally acquired books from the National Socialist era. This exhibition presents the first results of the academic investigation into the Bergstrasse Library's legal book collection.

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

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

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.