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New acquisitions and new entries in the Image Archive

Inspection of the citizens' militia by Duke Max in Bavaria in the Ludwigstrasse, coloured lithography by Gustav Kraus of 1852 | © BSB/ Image Archive

In August, the Image Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has uploaded a further 1,200 images to the online catalogue. Among them are numerous recent acquisitions, such as a coloured steel engraving of the French general Louis Alexandre Berthier (1753), who was married to a Bavarian princess and niece of King Max I Joseph.

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Images, images, images – The photographic archives of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

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

25 April – 7 July 2017
Cabinet presentation of the Image Archive
"Images, images, images – The photographic archives of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" is the title of the current presentation of the Image Archive, which can be visited as of now up to 7 July 2017 in front of the Reading Room for Music, Maps and Images.

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The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek expands its digital services: Similarity-based image search includes 43 million volumes in search for similar motifs

Similarity Search (detail of the home page) | © BSB

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is expanding its digital services again. Users from the fields of scholarship and research can now include all digital copies produced so far – thus around 1.2 million volumes with around 270 million book pages and 43 million images – in a similarity-based image search for similar motifs and images. The service is available at https://bildsuche.digitale-sammlungen.de and can also be used on mobile terminals.

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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

  • 2024: Wanderlust – A journey around the world in city maps 
    → also as virtual exhibition
  • 2023: Into the Alps, but why? – The crossing of the Alps from the Middle Ages to the present in maps and photographs 
    → also as virtual exhibition
  • 2022: The Olympic Games 72 in images. Photographs from the collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
    → also as virtual exhibition
  • 2021: MUNICH. LOOK here! The Image Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
    → also as virtual exhibition
  • 2018: Built 175 years ago – destroyed 75 years ago. The building of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
    → also as virtual exhibition
  • 2018: Wanderlust – A journey around the world in city maps 
    → also as virtual exhibition
  • 2017: Images, images, images – The photographic archives of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
    → also as virtual exhibition
  • 2016: Costume hats and tourists
  • 2015: Reverie and reality of library construction
  • 2014: Smile, please! – Press photographers
  • 2013: Oriental pastry
  • 2012: Masquerade
  • 2010: Costume hats and tourists
  • 2009: Charles Robert Darwin
  • 1997: From Armstrong to Zappa

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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