UB Art History

Access with UZH Card is also possible during opening hours of the Archaeological Collection.

• There are around 65 study spaces, whereof 5 with PC/screen (see devices).
• UZH members can book some of these study spaces online viabooked-UB
• Some study spaces can be used without prior reservation.
• Vacant study spaces can be used at any time, but reservations take priority.
• Some of the study spaces are reserved for students in the Institute of Art History.

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).

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.