Staff
Elżbieta Działo M.A. – Head of Library (biblioteka.ihs@uw.edu.pl)
Dariusz Żyto M.A. (infobiblio.ihs@uw.edu.pl)
About library
Collection profile: Polish art, art theory and history, architecture, painting, museology and conservation, decorative arts, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, comics (selection). In the section of auxiliary sciences: history, philosophy, aesthetics, religious studies, heraldry and genealogy, iconography. Reference collection: encyclopaedias, biographical dictionaries, iconographic and biblical lexicons, armorials, albums, and language dictionaries.
The library was established in 1945 as the Library of the Department of Art History at the University of Warsaw. Its collection has been enriched by donations from Dr. Seling and the Wormland Foundation, as well as the personal libraries of: Michał Walicki, Witold Krassowski, Hanna Morawska, Tadeusz Dobrzeniecki, Elżbieta Grabska, Deborah Howard. The library’s holdings amount to 44,000 volumes (including 6,000 issues of periodicals).
More than 80% of the library’s collection is available in the online catalogue.