The library

Open for scientific research are several cabinets filled with early sources for European lacquer recipes from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The museum management ensures that the old library taken over with the nucleus of the collection when the museum was inaugurated is being continually replenished with further valuable writings.

This scholarly library is so richly diverse that it is without parallel worldwide. Specialists in the field, private collectors and students enjoy using it and return again and again. To take one example, it contains a multivolume work devoted exclusively to Japanese lacquer saddles as well as the first editions of Goethe’s ‘Farbenlehre [‘Treatise on Color’] and the ‘Westöstlicher Diwan’ [‘East-West Divan’], the latter of course in an original Persian lacquer binding!