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MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection

Research and Scholarship

One of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection’s central tasks is the rigorous scholarly processing and digitalisation of the collection’s inventory. At sammlung.MAK.at more than 160 000 image and data records can thus be accessed by researchers and the broader public. The exceptionally high number of page views and a constantly increasing volume of requests for object loans and reproduction rights bear witness to the positive reception of these efforts, fostering dialogue between the collection and its users.
 
Numerous research projects, some of them supported by outside funding, place the collection’s holdings in ever-new contexts, the results of these projects eventually finding their way into exhibitions and publications.
 
In 2001, the museum’s tradition of regular publishing was successfully revived: MAK Studies, a series of publications initiated by the Library and Works on Paper Collection, casts an interdisciplinary light as well as opens up new perspectives on the MAK Collection. To date, 28 MAK Studies have been published. Special mention should be made of the 2017 publication Ephemera, that reproduces from a range of scholarly perspectives the unique body of commercial graphic works in the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection. The publication received the European Design Award.  
 
Starting in 2012, the Journals published by the MAK—Mittheilungen des k. k. Österreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie (1863–1897), Kunst und Kunsthandwerk (1898–1926) and Alte und Moderne Kunst (1956–1985)—have been scanned and indexed and their full text made available online. This abundant resource for researchers has been further enriched since 2018 by the successive digitalization of the MAK in-house catalogs, providing a comprehensive history of the museum’s exhibitions.
 
Through its projects, the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection underscores the MAK’s prominent position in the world of museum scholarship.

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Library and Works on Paper Collection

Head: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel
As one of the oldest museum libraries in the world focusing on the applied arts, since its foundation in 1863 the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection has constituted the heart of the museum.

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Works on Paper Room


The Works on Paper Room is dedicated entirely to works on paper. Due to the special conservational requirements of paper as a material, the rich holdings of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection are displayed in rotating exhibitions, whose topics cover the discipline of commercial graphic design in the wider sense: posters, drawings, Japanese woodblock printing. Artists’ statements, artists’ books, and architectural projects testify to the diversity of the program arising from the complexity of this collection.

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