Relics and Reliquaries – Seeing Is Believing
Relics and reliquaries have been at the core of European devotional cultures during many centuries. Recent decades have seen a wide scholarly interest in the subject, expressed through several exhibitions and book publications. The European Network on the Instruments of Devotion (ENID) has chosen this dynamic research topic for this conference, celebrating the network's 20th anniversary. The…
La restituzione dei beni coloniali
07.03/2023 h14:15 – 17:30 ingresso via Liguria, 20
Analisi comparativa tra Italia e Svizzera
La questione della restituzione dei beni culturali coloniali è diventata un tema importante per i musei europei. In effetti, le richieste – sia da parte degli Stati, sia delle comunità locali – stanno diventando sempre più pressanti, e gli Stati occidentali guardano con maggiore incisività al loro…
Director’s Seminar Series 2023
The Director’s seminars take place in the lecture hall downstairs on Tuesday afternoons. Some are in-house seminars starting at 4 pm, other are public events starting at 6 pm. DNIR’s visiting fellows, guest researchers, and invited lecturers present current their research. Presentations are usually in English and take the format of 20 minute-papers, followed by a Q&A session and an informal…
Contacts & info
Headquarters:
c/o Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
Passeggiata del Gianicolo, 10
00165 Rome
info@reteurbs.org For opening hours and admission procedures, please visit the pages of the individual institutes
Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
Reale Istituto Nederlandese Di Roma
Istituto Di Norvegia In Roma
Istituto Svizzero
Real Academia De España En Roma…
Collections
The collective catalog of the URBS network currently consists of about 111,000 bibliographic records.
In addition to ancient and modern printed publications - monographic and periodical - it also includes graphic materials, prints, maps, musical recordings and scores, analytical descriptions, and electronic resources.
It is based on a multilingual authority file and is enriched with…
Reale Istituto Nederlandese di Roma
URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Koninklijk
Nederlands
Instituut te Rome The KNIR library is specialized in archaeology, art history and history of Rome and of Italy.
There are also sections devoted to papal history, and the relations between the Vatican and the Netherlands.Our collection also include works on cultural heritage and on areas which have been excavated by Dutch archaeologist or…
Istituto Svizzero
URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Istituto
Svizzero With over. 48,000 titles of monographs and publications, the library of the Swiss Institute provides researchers with an important collection related to the antiquity, and classical archaeology, with particular reference to the territory of Rome and Lazio, history, art history, musicology, architecture, philology. The library has an important…
Istituto di Norvegia in Roma
URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Istituto
di Norvegia in Roma
(Univesità di Oslo) The Norway Institute in Rome is an international meeting place for the humanities and an important theater for collaborations among international researchers.
The library contains around 25 000 academic books and journals and is a principal hub in the research activities, studies, and knowledge exchange that…
Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Institutum
Romanum
Finlandiae The library consists of circa 21,000 volumes. The library specializes in classical studies, in particular in Roman topography. To support researchers, the library acquires key reference works in the fields of classical philology, ancient history, classical archaeology, and art history. The collection also includes as many works as…
Who we are
URBS Network URBS library consortium is a non-profit cultural association with members from various academic and research institutions present in Rome, Italy and active in the field of the humanities.
Our mission is to facilitate research, maintain member’s bibliographic resources and bibliographic search tools by providing, maintaining and developing an online cooperative catalog, to…
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URBS library consortium is a non-profit cultural association with members from various academic and research institutions present in Rome, Italy and active in the field of the humanities.
Our mission is to facilitate research, maintain member’s bibliographic resources and bibliographic search tools by providing, maintaining and developing an online cooperative catalog, to encourage and…