The Department has one of the largest art history libraries in central Europe,

with some 25,000 scholarly monographs, exhibition and auction catalogues and 250 journal subscriptions. In addition to continuous acquisition of new literature, supported by the Getty Foundation, the department has extensive holdings of historic material, thanks to private donations and institutional transfers. Extensive parts of the art history library of the former German University in Prague were moved to Brno following its closure in 1945. The Department library also has a notable collection of historic prints acquired from the Matice Moravská and significant and classic theoretical works on architecture (J. Barozzi da Vignola, Pierre Le Muet, Andrea Palladio, Francesco Muttoni, Gérard de Lairesse, Andrea Pozzo), as well as the collected works of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and a set of graphic illustrations for the work of J. B. Seroux d´Agincourt.

Doctoral, diploma and bachelor theses defended by students of art history at Masaryk University are also an integral part of the library. These are supplemented by access to electronic databases, such as ProQuest, Web of Science and EBSCO, and full-text electronic journal archives, such as JStor, CEEOL, Oxford Journals Online, SpringerLINK, and Wiley Online Library.

Staff and students are also entitled to access the holdings of the Faculty of Arts Central Library.

The library is primarily for staff and students of the Faculty of Arts. Its collections, however, are also open to the entire academic community and to anyone from the general public who is interested on a reference only basis.