The Reading Room of Cartography and Environmental Protection
tel.: (091) 48 19 185
Opening hours:
Monday, Wednesday 11 – 19
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10 – 15
The Reading Room of Cartography and Environmental Protection is situated on the ground floor in the old building (building III, entrance C – from the car park at Podgórna Street).
It offers collections related to cartography and ecology, geography and related sciences, tourism and sightseeing in Poland and in the world.
A collection of the pre-war city library Stettiner Stadtbücherei, which incorporated atlases, maps, plans and panoramas of the Pomeranian towns, especially of Szczecin, served as a start of the cartographic library.
The most valuable items of the collection include an atlas published by an Amsterdam publishing house of Wilhelm and Johann Blaeu (1642-1647), containing maps of Europe, a map of Pomerania and Rugia created by Lubinus, and two 18th century atlases containing copperplate maps. “A Children’s Atlas” featuring 24 colour maps published in 1772 also deserves a mention – it was the first atlas published in Poland in the vernacular. Old plans and panoramas of Szczecin illustrate the town’s development from the 16th century to our times (among them “Alten Stettin” from approximately 1590 by G. Bruin, a copperplate of E. Dahlberg from 1659).