German Museum of Books and Writing

{{Short description|Museum in Leipzig}}

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| native_name = Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum

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| caption = The 2011 annex designed by Stuttgart architect Gabriele Glöckler

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| former_name = Deutsches Buchgewerbe-Museum

| established = {{Start date|1884|10|29|df=y}}

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| location = Leipzig, Germany

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| founder = {{Interlanguage link multi|Carl Berendt Lorck|de}}

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The German Museum of Books and Writing ({{langx|de|Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum}} (DBSM)) in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1884 as Deutsches Buchgewerbe-Museum, is the world's oldest museum of its kind, dedicated to collecting and preserving objects and documents as well as literature connected with the history of books, including paper, printing techniques, the art of illustration, and bookbinding. The museum is housed in a modern €60 million annex to the German National Library in Leipzig built in 2011.{{cite book|author=Michael P. Olson|title=The Odyssey of a German National Library: A Short History of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin, the Deutsche Bücherei and The Deutsche Bibliothek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBPhAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Harrassowitz|isbn=978-3-447-03648-1|pages=86–}}{{cite book|title=Bulletin de l'UNESCO á l'intention des bibliothéques|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2sUaAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization}}

In 1886, the museum acquired the entire book collection of {{illm|Heinrich Klemm|de|Heinrich Klemm (Verleger)}}, which he had sold to the Kingdom of Saxony the year before.{{cite web|url=http://mediengeschichte.dnb.de/DBSMZBN/Content/EN/Printing/04-ein-verlorener-schatz-en.html|title=German Museum of Books and Writing "Signs - Books - Networks"|publisher=|accessdate=10 April 2016}} A rare copy of a 42-line Gutenberg Bible printed on vellum was among the books in the collection.{{cite book|author=Georg Jäger|title=Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Band 1: Das Kaiserreich 1871-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zRBThkBXtoC&pg=PA218|date=30 July 2010|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|language=German|isbn=978-3-11-023238-7|pages=218–}} At the end of World War II, the Bible was taken as war booty and transferred to the Russian State Library in Moscow, where it remains today.{{cite news|url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/buch-und-schriftkultur-das-geisterhaus/6356990.html|title=Buch- und Schriftkultur: Das Geisterhaus - Kultur - Tagesspiegel|newspaper=Der Tagesspiegel Online |publisher=|accessdate=10 April 2016|language=German}}

{{Commonscat|Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum|German Museum of Books and Writing}}