Library Hours, Terms of Use

The museum's specialist library mainly collects specialist books and journals of history and auxiliary sciences, archeology, cultural history, ethnography, art history, local history, museology, museum pedagogy, bibliography, and literary history according to the needs of museum disciplines, research areas and museologists. Through his exchanges, you can find the most important domestic and foreign museum publications, specialist books, yearbooks, and specialist journals.

The library's holdings can be used locally, free of charge, the library does not lend, it provides photocopying, scanning, and photography for a fee. It provides its unprotected documents in the framework of interlibrary loans, and provides interlibrary loans for its users.

In addition to purchases and exchange publications, the museum's specialist library was expanded by Half Edit Legacy, a Cziráky's deposit, a Madách collection, that Abad-Hauser legacy. Other donors also contributed hundreds of volumes of books, specialist journals, and old books to the library's professional standards, especially in the field of ethnography and art history.

The Madách collection was collected by Lutheran bishop József Szabó and then donated to the museum. All publications, books, studies, and even daily press articles from and dealing with Madách can be found in a separate collection, which has been organized and developed by József Freier since the gift.

The museum's yearbook published since 1959 is Arabona, which, with the expansion of exchange relations, brought the library to important Hungarian and foreign publications. Since 1996, it has been published as a museum publication (magazine), and thus the previous structure, consisting only of studies, has been expanded with columns: Studies, publications (original historical sources), portraits (biographies) and writings about the events of museum life. The yearbook is available in the Hungarian Digital Museum Library until number 57 (2019): http://muzeum.arcanum.hu/kiadvanyok

It records, explores, and makes its holdings available to users in a label catalog and in the Huntéka integrated library system, and makes it available to users with its Internet OPAC catalog. The library has been public since 2003.