Bodmer Library Museum

The Bodmer Foundation is a library and museum specialised in manuscripts and precious variants. It is placed in Cologny, Switzerland simply out of doors Geneva. Also referred to as Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, it is a Swiss background site of countrywide significance. The library turned into established through Martin Bodmer and is famous as the house of the Bodmer Papyri.

Some of those papyri are a few of the oldest final copies of the New Testament. Some manuscripts are written in Greek, others in Coptic. The first of the manuscripts was bought in 1956. It additionally homes a duplicate of the Gutenberg Bible. Martin Bodmer set up the library within the 1920s. Bodmer selected the works centering on what he noticed because the five pillars of global literature: the Bible, Homer, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He prioritized autographs and primary versions.

In 1970, shortly before Bodmer's dying, the Bodmer Foundation was hooked up to make the gathering handy and preserve it. In 2003 the constructing changed into remodelled by Mario Botta. He related the cellars of the 2 houses by using a-story underground structure, pierced by means of light shafts. The collection contains some 160,000 gadgets, including Sumerian clay tablets, Greek papyri and handwritten originals along with track sheets. He aimed at representing the historical context through including political, philosophical and medical gadgets.