Weltkulturen Library

The Weltkulturen Museum library, in its wonderful rooms in the riverside villa at Schaumainkai 35, offers an unique place to read and work.

The library offers a wide spectrum of German and foreign-language scholarly works and materials on ethnology, religion, music, art and museology. The holdings reflect the focus of the Weltkulturen Museum’s different departments – Africa, the Americas, Oceania and South East Asia. Carefully selected books and journals also provide a greater insight into the specific topics and themes dealt with in the current exhibitions.

The library’s outstanding features include a collection of publications on contemporary art outside the western world. In addition, the holdings offer a range of key scholarly journals (e.g. Anthropos, Baessler-Archiv, Current Anthropology, Third Text), books for children and young adults, as well as sound and audio recordings.

As a reference library, the holdings are not available on loan, but they can be viewed in the reading room and copied. The library is also open to the general public.

You can browse the entire library collection as well as the other Frankfurt museum libraries in the centralized database of the Association of Frankfurt Museum Libraries.

READING DAY
Friday, 21 November 3-6pm
By the river, by the sea, in the city, in the village: brave children!

This year, the Weltkulturen Museum is participating in the nationwide Reading Day. In the cosy Weltkulturen Library, books will be read aloud that deal with the topics of diversity, tolerance, cultural exchange and, above all, childhood in other cultures.

Every half hour, stories will be read aloud in German, English, French, Spanish or Indonesian.                       

For children aged 6 to 12, admission free.
Location: Weltkulturen Library, Schaumainkai 35.
Registration: