Special Collections

Collections by discipline

Address & hours

Digital library

Collections of the Universiteit van Amsterdam

A growing number of collections, either ordered by subject field or randomly, will be presented here

What collections does the UvA hold?

Brief survey of UvA collections held by the library, faculties and UvA museums

Special Collections

Descriptions of subcollections in libraries of the University of Amsterdam which have a unique character. The nature of the material is such that it cannot be borrowed and can be consulted in specified reading rooms only on the presentation of a valid ID.

Museums and collections of the Universiteit van Amsterdam

The University of Amsterdam manages several museums.

Online Inventarissen

Access to a growing number of finding aids for collections and archives available at the Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Image databases

The image databases of the University Library and the University Museum