Library
The library of the Museum der Kulturen Basel and of the Ethnological Seminar of Basel University is the largest and oldest (1901) specialised ethnological library in Switzerland.
It offers you a comprehensive selection of information with over 80,000 publications, including around 200 current journals. The focus is on the many areas covered by the museum’s collections and the specialist theoretical ethnological literature.Access to the publications is by means of detailed classifications. These enable you to conduct specific searches for specialist ethnological literature. The library staff will be pleased to offer you their professional expertise in finding the literature you need.
You can call up the library’s index in the IDS Catalogue Basel Bern online at www.aleph.unibas.ch.
> Literature search by OCW and OWC (pdf)
> Catalogue IDS Basel Bern
> Elektronische Medien Ethnologie
Further Links
> University Library Basel
> Ethnological Seminar of Basel University
General Information
> Access and Use (pdf)
> Publication Exchange (pdf)
