Timetable
Monday to Friday from 11 AM to 2 PM and from 4 PM to 7:30 PM
Saturdays from 10 AM to 2 PM
Sundays, closed
ARTIUM's Library has a collection of more than 75,000 references including monographs, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, dossiers on artists and entities, posters and audiovisual material.
Besides being a key element in the documentation work of the different departments that make up ARTIUM, the Library offers a freely accessible service available to everyone, be they researchers, students or art enthusiasts, interested in any of the multiple facets of contemporary art, from plastic arts and the cinema to music and the comic.
On the other hand, ARTIUM's Library is an especially dynamic unit, which, apart from programming regular activities relating to the collections it manages, video art and sound art, film, contemporary music, dramatic arts, artists and contemporary art movements, promotes initiatives that link the worlds of art and books (Letras para el arte (a writer is invited to talk about an artwork in the collection from a literary viewpoint), Club de lectura (a person from the cultural world is invited choose a book, which is read and discussed in groups) and Bookcrossing) or that delve into the secrets of the seventh art (Film circles. Insights into the film world). It also promotes exhibitions: comics, books on artists, etc. …
See the activities of the Library in the activities agenda (Spanish).
MUSEUM-CENTRE. Library
Did you know that using ARTIUM’s Library is free? Any people interested in arts and contemporary culture can read or just leaf through books and magazines.
Did you know that ARTIUM’s Library has got more than 42.000 documents? Here you can find information about artists of XX and XXI Centuries, and about architecture, Design, photography, comic, music, cinema…
Did you know that at ARTIUM’s Library you can find more than 1.700 films? You also have screens to view them comfortably?
Did you know that you can use books, magazines and films, and that you can also take part in several activities? Reading clubs on novel or comic, exhibitions, film exhibition and discussion, meetings with writers, worshops…
Did you know that SEDIC (the organization that groups together the proffesionals that workon documentation matters in Spain) has chosen ARTIUM’s Library as the most innovative and the one with the highest standards among spanish museums?
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