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Special collections

Read more about our Special collections:
A selection of works and collections
Digital collections
Special Collections on Instagram
Exhibitions

How to use the Special collections

Uppsala University Library can offer students and researchers very valuable and rare special collections. During the long history of the Library, large collections have been built up through donations, spoils of war, duty deliveries and purchases. The special collections are today considered as cultural heritage, which includes old prints, manuscripts, images, maps and musicalia. Thanks to requests for digital copies, more and more materials are being digitised and available online. Before you make a request, search for the materials in Alvin – platform for digital collections and digitised cultural heritage.

Materials printed before 1850 or that are a part of our Special collections, such as manuscripts, pictures and maps, may only be studied in the Special Collections Reading Rooms. Please plan your visit so that we may help you in best way possible.

Here you find a digital "reference library":

Exhibitions at Carolina Rediviva

The exhibition hall is temporarily closed.

Entrance is free of charge.

The exhibition hall contains the famous Codex argenteus, as well as the earliest reasonably accurate map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina, and the hand-drawn map of the city of Mexico from the middle of the sixteenth century.

The library also has a temporary exhibition on 18th century music from the manors of Gimo and Leufsta, now in the collections of Uppsala University Library.

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