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Leipzig: Monday 12.05.2025

The Museum Reading Room in Leipzig will not open until 16:00 on Monday 12.05.2025, due to maintenance work.

Leipzig: Thursday 15.05.2025

The German National Library in Leipzig will not open until 16:00 on Thursday 16.05.2025 due to maintenance work.
The Museum Reading Room and the exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will be open.

Kunst am Bau

Vier blaue Bilder über einem Lesesaaltisch neben einer hohen Regalwand mit Bibliotheksleiter

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Klaus Schneider created the artwork “Ein Würfelwurf” (“A Throw of the Dice”) from a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. The poem was translated into Braille but the order of the Braille dots was dissolved. The result is a deep blue four-part panel painting reminiscent of a starry sky that hangs high up in the library’s reading room.

Last changes: 16.07.2018

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