Expo 'The Antwerp Songbook'

The Nottebohm Room is open to individual visitors

From 19 June to 30 August 2026

This summer, the Nottebohm Room is opening its doors once again for the public to enjoy.

Travel grant to Antwerp for two international researchers

Since 2018, the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience and Museum Plantin-Moretus, with the support of the Nottebohm Foundation and the Book and Literature Endowment Fund, have offered an annual travel grant to encourage research on the history of the printed book in Antwerp. Two foreign researchers will receive financial support to carry out several weeks of research in their collections.

Consult digital publications at home

Request temporary access for research

Users who want to consult copyright-protected publications from our digital collections for research or education purposes can now do so at home. A new application in our digital library makes this possible.

Conditions of sale

Conditions of sale when purchasing an online ticket

Travel grant brings Ashley Gonik (Harvard University) to Antwerp

Three research vlogs

In 2019, Ashley Gonik received a travel grant from the Nottebohm Foundation to conduct research on the collections of the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Plantin-Moretus Museum. Are you curious about the life of an American researcher in Antwerp? In three short research vlogs she tells about her journey, research and experiences.

The Nottebohm Room

De Nottebohmzaal is een verborgen parel. Hier worden de eerste 150.000 boeken van de bibliotheek bewaard in een historische en adembenemende setting. De deuren van de zaal zwaaien alleen open voor tentoonstellingen, lezingen, concerten of rondleidingen. En als ze dat doen, vliegt de magie je tegemoet.

Treasures of the Nottebohm Room

For groups

Visit one of the most beautiful and prestigious library spaces with your association or group. A guide will take you through the history of the building and explain the special books kept there.

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.

Podcasts Miraeus Lectures

Together with the Flanders Book Historical Society and the Antwerp Bibliophile Society, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library organizes book-historical lectures that place book history in the Netherlands in an international perspective. Browse our archive of a few past lectures and listen to the podcasts.