2024
University Library

„A quarter of a century of reading European Capitals of Culture“ - special collection of the University Library

From 2000-2025 more than 50 cities located in 32 countries were European Capitals of Culture. Some of them counted already to the „Big Names“ before (such as Prague, Brussels, Marseilles, Istanbul etc.), many of them, in contrast, were rather less known since then. For this reason, on the occasion of the year of Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture the Library will present a special collection providing a forum and appropriate attention also to these cities – with Chemnitz as „great closing“. The special collection may be visited from autumn 2024 on at the shelves around the reading hall at the 2nd level of the Library building Straße der Nationen 33. The presented books are of course also for borrowing.

Contact:
Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht, Universitätsbibliothek