{"id":19292,"date":"2022-04-20T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hab.de\/wir-machen-buecher\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T11:44:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T10:44:14","slug":"we-make-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hab.de\/en\/we-make-books\/","title":{"rendered":"We make books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The anniversary exhibition is now available online<\/a>.<\/h3>

There was nothing predestined or straightforward about the collection\u2019s long road from being the court library of this early modern territorial sovereign to becoming an internationally renowned research library. Thanks to a great deal of luck, however, its holdings have managed to withstand the tests of time. Once Duke Augustus had assembled one of the largest collections of books in Europe in the mid-17th century, Wolfenb\u00fcttel began to attract travellers from many different countries. His universal library contains literature from all areas of knowledge and to this day it continues to form the core of the institution bearing his name.<\/p>

Despite the library\u2019s age \u2013 and the even greater age of some of its manuscripts and printed works \u2013 the library does not serve simply as a museum for venerable and dusty old tomes. On the contrary, it enjoys a long history as a place where knowledge is produced and communicated. That the library sees so much use is in itself a justification of the fact that \u2018so many books have been amassed here at such great expense\u2019, as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing once noted. This is why the library\u2019s great significance cannot be judged solely by the books that it holds but first and foremost by the books that the library itself has made possible and brought forth.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The exhibition focuses on the books that have a special relationship with the HAB and which would never have been written were it not for the library. The old works continue to give rise to new books: scholarly treatises as well as novels, travel guides, catalogues, editions and facsimiles \u2013 and let us not forget the fascinating artist\u2019s books. The great selection of exhibited works allows visitors to experience the potentials for discovery, research and invention that this multifaceted treasury of books has made possible and to see how these works have been used over the last 450 years.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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