UB Art History
Information about Access
Access with UZH Card is also possible during opening hours of the Archaeological Collection.
What Study Spaces are Available?
- There are around 65 study spaces, whereof 5 with PC/screen (see devices).
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The study spaces can be used at any time without prior reservation.
- Some of the study spaces are reserved for students in the Institute of Art History.
What Infrastructure Can I Use Here?
Borrow and Return
- Self-checkout station
Shelf for collecting and returning items
Please note that items will not be cleared from the library account until the next working day (check due date).
Devices
- 5 PC workstations
- Flatbed scanner
- Book scanner
- Microfiche scanner
Lockers
- 56 lockers (free of charge, 28 days loan, reservation possible via swisscovery)
- Locker keys can be borrowed at UB Philosophy (KOL-F-114).
Information about the Location and Collection
The majority of the library's collection is in the reading room and can be used on site. Many of the books can be borrowed at a self-checkout station. Precious and rare books are stored in closed stacks and have be ordered on the previous day.
- Main subject areas: European and American art history from late antiquity to the present (architecture, painting, sculpture), general art studies (sources, art theory, iconography), literature on the history of photography, film, new media.
- Marginal subject areas: Non-European art, decorative arts, garden design
Extensive bequests from former emeriti Johann Rudolf Rahn, Joseph Zemp, Konrad Escher, Heinrich Wölfflin, Gotthard Jedlicka, Emil Maurer, Adolf Reinle and Helmut Brinker form the basis of the collection. The library is organized topographically and by subject.
More than 10,000 photofiches of cultural monuments in Europe (Marburg Index) are stored in a separate microfiche room (room 206a). A microfiche scanner allows scanning and further processing of the fiches for PowerPoint presentations and seminar papers.