Catalogue

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Requesting loans

Loan a book to exhibit it? Find out how to request a loan.

Practical information

Do you intend to visit our library to consult a publication or visit our stunning Nottebohm Room? Below you can find all the practical information you need, from the opening hours to information for wheelchair users and accessibility.

Reading Room

Our library has a large collection of early printed books, long-forgotten periodicals and extensive reference works. While we do not loan these works, you can take a closer look at them in our Reading Room.

Venue rental and filming

Our stunning Nottebohm Room is the perfect setting for a lecture, a seminar, a film shoot or a book launch. You can also rent the Eekhoud Cabinet.

Nottebohm Fellowship for Book Historical Research

The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to announce a fellowship programme for research into the history of the early printed book (15th-18th century) in Antwerp, with the gracious support of the “Thierry and Frédéric Nottebohm Grant” of the Nottebohm Family Foundation.

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Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library

The library for Dutch literature, Flemish cultural heritage and the history of Antwerp

The library for Dutch literature, the history of Antwerp, and Flemish cultural heritage

About us

The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library is located in Antwerp’s bustling city centre. For over five centuries, the library has been collecting and preserving Flemish cultural heritage.

Summer expo Imagination Bound : meet the curator

Interview with Katja Clement

Book art has been taught at the Academy of Berchem for a hundred years. This anniversary is celebrated with the exposition ‘Bound by Imagination’ in the Nottebohm room of the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience and other locations in Antwerp. But what exactly is book art? And how has this discipline developed itself? We turned to Katja Clement for answers since she has been active for 25 years as a maker and instructor of book art and as the curator of the expo. Moreover, she is the fifth woman in a row to head the programme.