Department of Planned Languages and Esperanto Museum

The Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library with the Department of Planned Languages ​​was founded as an association in 1927 by Councillor Hugo Steiner and 1928 established at the Austrian National Library in Vienna.

A 80-year continuous collection activities gave rise to the world's largest specialist library of Planned Languages ​​. There are documented on the 500 planned languages ​​, of which Esperanto and Interlingua are the most important.

The Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library is the most important of its kind in the world. Multimedia presentations convey more than a hundred years of eventful history of Esperanto. About listening stations, other planned languages ​​, such as the mystical language Lingua Ignota of Hildegard von Bingen or the Klingon from the television series Star Trek can be retrieved.

The collection is owned by several major post- and Vorlässen, such as that of Eugene Wüster, the founder of international terminology work, or that of the Catalan- Portuguese writer Manuel de Seabra.

The Papyri of the Austrian National Library is also the world's largest specialist library for interlinguistics and documented to the 500 different planning languages ​​- including Volapük, Ido, Interlingua and Esperanto - in 35,000 volumes, 2,500 periodical titles, 3,000 museum objects, 2,000 autographs and manuscripts, 23,000 photos and photo negatives, 1,100 posters and 40,000 pamphlets.

In a large-scale, multi-year digitization project is planned to be an essential part of the library online. 2007, the first tranche has been scanned. The documents are available on the website (see under " 100 early printed "). So far, 11,000 photos over the image archive Austria accessible online.

Location of the Esperanto Museum was originally the Imperial Palace. 2005 the company moved to the baroque Palais Mollard - Clary in the Lord lane 9 in Vienna's city center.