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.

• Request digital copies
• Order special collections materials to the Special Collections Reading Rooms

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.

• Get a library card for access to the Special Collections Reading Rooms
• Search our catalogues
• More on request materials from the Special collections
• Rules for the Special Collections Reading Rooms

Useful tools:

• Digital resources for cultural heritage collections

Read more about the special collections materials

• Early printed books and special collections
• Manuscripts collections
• Archives
• Picture collections
• Maps collections
• Music scores collections

Exhibitions

Read more about the exhibitions at the University Library. We can also contribute with material from the collections for exhibitions arranged by other cultural institutions in Sweden or abroad. How to borrow material for an exhibition.

Current projects with materials in the Special Collections Division:

• Autograph albums (Alba amicorum)
• Dissertations 1600-1855
• Greek manuscripts in Sweden
• Meeting place Mediterranean Sea (Labraunda)
• Numismatic literature
• Ongoing digitisation projects
• Project The Library of Leufstabruk