Our Libraries
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Open 9:00–18:00
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Getty Library
Opening Hours Restrictions:–
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Hans Belting Library
Open 10:00–20:00
Monday to Thursday
Open 10:00–18:00
Friday, Saturday
Hans Belting Library
Opening Hours Restrictions:– April 24 at 18:00 due to the SMArTalk lecture series
– 28 May due to the doctoral conference Art and Authority
Central Library
Open 9:00–20:00
Monday to Friday
Open 9:00–17:00
Saturday, Sunday
The books in The Department libraries are intended to be used only inside the reading rooms.
The online catalogue includes all books and exhibition and auction catalogues in the library, as well as all volumes of journals acquired after 1995. Only half of the journals from before that year are in the catalogue; the remaining issues (and all theses) are still searchable in the ticketed catalogue.
Library Service: If you have any questions, contact the librarian.
Location
The Departmental library is housed in two reading rooms: the Getty Library and the Hans Belting Library. Both reading rooms are located in the Faculty of Arts building on Veveří 28.
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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.
The books in The Department libraries are intended to be used only inside the reading rooms.