The Library in the Museum of Gothenburg is a scientific special library with 100 000 volumes. You can find above all literature about the city of Gothenburg and the museum’s topics archeology, cultural history, theater and performing arts, industrial history, military history, school history and the East India Company. But there is also literature on a range of other cultural areas.

Limited availability

The collections of objects, photographs and archives will move to a new warehouses in 2024. This means that we will not be able to answer external questions and provide material in the coming years. The fact room, library and image orders are services that are currently closed.

When searching literature

As a visitor, you get access to the library via the museum’s study room, Faktarummet. Here you can study and copy pages from the books. However, we can not offer lending of literature.

Web Search

You can also search the library catalog Web Search where currently almost half of our literature are included. Other literature is registered on manual catalog cards. Searches in the online catalog may therefore need to be complemented with a visit to the study room.