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We have optimised our reading-room reservation system!

East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room | © BSB/H.-R. Schulz

After you have logged in on the web page of our booking system, you can now view and manage your bookings in a newly designed overview.

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Here we go! The STERN Photo Archive is on the way to digitization

STERN Photo Archive | © BSB/H.-R. Schulz

The first 70,000 images from the STERN Photo Archive are on their way to digitization. This means that the time is drawing a bit nearer when you can see the photos online and use them.

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Report by the NDR TV station: The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek takes over the images of the photographer Dirk Hentschel, thus continuing the expansion of its archive of press photographs

Willy Brandt shaving (1969) | © BSB/STERN Photo Archive/Jay Ullal

In a feature highly worth seeing, the NDR TV channel reports about the Image Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek which will now take over the life’s work of the Flensburg photo journalist Dirk Hentschel.

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Photo stories – Interesting facts and anecdotes on selected images of the exhibition "MUNICH. LOOK here!"

Photo stories on selected images of the exhibition | © BSB/ Image Archive

Use our photo stories to take a look at selected images of the exhibition "MUNICH. LOOK here!" and find out about some interesting facts and anecdotes.

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New photo archives in bavarikon: Historical images of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and portrait photographs of the Tucher family

From the photo archive of Ernst Liesching | © BSB/ Image Archive/ bavarikon

bavarikon presents new photograph collections of two partners, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the Tucher'sche Kulturstiftung (Tucher Cultural Foundation). The portal on the arts, culture and regional studies of Bavaria thus now offers around 90,000 high-resolution images inviting you to go on a virtual exploration trip!

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Conference

  • 27 – 28 April 2017
    Annual conference of the working group of public-sector image archives and Land media centers
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, Friedrich-von-Gärtner Saal
    Programme  (PDF, 129 KB)

Participation in conferences

  • Conference of the working group of image archives, Marburg, April 2016
  • Participation in Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich: Introduction of the collections and presentation of objects on "Mobility in transition"
  • Conference of the working group of image archives, Dresden, April 2015
  • Launch of DigiPortA, April 2015
Presentation of objects from the Image Archive on "mobility in transition" on the occasion of Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich | © BSB/ Image Archive
Presentation of objects from the Image Archive on "mobility in transition" on the occasion of Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich | © BSB/ Image Archive
Presentation of objects from the Image Archive on "mobility in transition" on the occasion of Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich | © BSB/ Image Archive
Presentation of objects from the Image Archive on "mobility in transition" on the occasion of Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich | © BSB/ Image Archive
Presentation of objects from the Image Archive on "mobility in transition" on the occasion of Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich | © BSB/ Image Archive
Presentation of objects from the Image Archive on "mobility in transition" on the occasion of Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich | © BSB/ Image Archive
Presentation of objects from the Image Archive on "mobility in transition" on the occasion of Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich | © BSB/ Image Archive
Presentation of objects from the Image Archive on "mobility in transition" on the occasion of Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich | © BSB/ Image Archive
Costume hat and tourists – Presentation in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2016 | © BSB/ Image Archive
Costume hat and tourists – Presentation in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2016 | © BSB/ Image Archive
Costume hat and tourists – Presentation in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2016 | © BSB/ Image Archive
Costume hat and tourists – Presentation in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2016 | © BSB/ Image Archive
Costume hat and tourists – Presentation in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2016 | © BSB/ Image Archive
Costume hat and tourists – Presentation in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2016 | © BSB/ Image Archive

Exhibitions and presentations

Images, images, images

Virtual exhibition on the photographic archives of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

To the virtual exhibition
The architect Tino Walz in the Fountain Courtyard of the Residence destroyed by the war, Munich, 1945 (Photographic archive Tino Walz) | © BSB/ Image Archive

 

Picture credits
Images, images, images | © BSB/ Image Archive

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