Moravian Library

The Moravian Library (Czech: Moravian Zemská knihovna, MZK ) is a scientific library, founded in 1958 in the South Moravian city of Brno. With a population of four million media it is the second largest library in the Czech Republic, according to the National Library in Prague.

History

Of the three predecessor institutions until 1958 and until then independent Brno libraries, the University Library Brno was in relation to age and historical stocks the most important. The University Library was originally founded back in 1770 to the reference library of the Society for the promotion of agriculture in Moravia. 1811 arose from this the k.k. Moravian- Silesian Society for the promotion of agriculture, the natural and cultural studies and on his own initiative in 1818, the Franzens Museum Brno. In June 1899, the country Moravia took over the sponsorship of this library, and built it to kk State Library.

After emergence of the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918 ) and establishment of the Masaryk University in Brno (1919 ) received the Moravian Land Library on 23 May 1923, the position of a State and University Library. In 1935 she received a legal depository for Moravia and Silesia.

In 1958 it was formed by the merger of the University Library, the State Technical Library (founded in 1900 as the library of the Institute of Technology ) and the State Pedagogical Library (founded in 1921 as Central Library of Education ), the State Scientific Library in Brno ( Státní vědecká knihovna v Brně ). In 1993, renamed it Moravian Library. A 1994 advertised by the City of Brno and the Executive Board of the Moravian Library architectural competition for a new building of the central library won the Prague architect office Onex. After three years of construction, the new Central Library on 2 April 2001 was officially opened.