MUSEUMS

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY RIJEKA
PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF THE GLAGOLITIC SCRIPT

Dolac 1
Tel: 336-911 i 336-129
Opening hours: 08.00 till 15.00 every day

The University Library (custodian of European heritage) was established in 1626 by the Jesuits. They came here from the Austrian town of Judenburg at the invitation of the town council of Rijeka and set up a secondary school complete with courses as well as a library.
The library is situated in Dolac 1., the Zammatia (architect) part, built in 1887. for the requirements of the Hungarian primary school. The building was destroyed in World War II. and rebuilt in 1954.

The library holdings are divided into a few collections, of which the most important are: the Old holdings - rare books and manuscripts, i.e. collection of "Biblioteka civica" with "Fluminensia" (a collection of 40,000 volumes and periodicals), "Adriatica" (a collection of 15,000 volumes and periodicals), Glagolitic, Graphic and Musical collections. The total holdings of the University Library are 305,000 volumes, 70,000 yearly periodicals and 7,000 back files of newspapers. The Library preserves 21 incunabula as well as 600 volumes of documents from the 16th century and other numerous rare documents relating to the town of Rijeka and this part of Europe.

From 1968. there has been a permanent "Glagolitic" exhibition, which displays the Croatian Glagolitic script and printed heritage, especially from the north Adriatic area, where the first Croatian (Glagolitic) books were printed, i.e. the establishment of the first printing presses: in Senj ( 1494.- 1496. and 1507. - 1508.) and in Rijeka ( 1530. - 1531.).

Entrance fee: 10,00 kn