The exhibition "Dürrenmatt, Hesse, Rilke, and the wine" in Neuchâtel, the Night of the Museums and the BiblioWeekend in Bern: take a look at the NL's cultural offerings in 2024.
The collections of the Swiss National Library consist of books, newspapers and periodicals, websites, maps and atlases, university and corporate publications, official publications and printed music.
The collection of the Prints and Drawings Department includes prints from the 17th to 21st centuries, photographs, postcards, posters and artists’ books, as well as documents on historic monument preservation since the end of the 19th century.
The National Library’s Literary Archives are home to the leading
collection of literary estates, libraries and archives from authors of
the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Swiss National Sound Archives in Lugano collect sound recordings and preserve them for posterity. They have been archiving Switzerland’s audio heritage and making it available to anyone with an interest since 1987.
“Scheibenschlagen”, or disc beating, is a fire ritual that takes place during Lent and has been on Switzerland’s list of living traditions since 2012. The custom is known by various other names locally.
Sixty vintage advertising panels from Dr. Wander AG, housed in the National Library’s Prints and Drawings Department, give us a glimpse into marketing messages from a bygone era.
Parfois jugé «trop politique» en Suisse romande, Daniel de Roulet s’inscrit dans la tradition de Frisch, Dürrenmatt ou Meienberg qu’il convoque, dans une fiction, pour enquêter sur des faits historiques.
Press releases
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