Library - A treasury of knowledge and history

Library

Founded at the same time as the foundation of the museum in 1949, today it has a collection of over 8,000 books, among which the Collection of old and rare (partially restored) books from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries (for example, Seneca's Epistles from 1702, Aesop's Fables from 1734, Cicero's works printed in 1773 or Kamen pravi smutnye veliki by Antun Kanižlić from 1780), a collection of books of the Fifth Crusader and Sixth St. George Border Regiments from the 18th and 19th centuries, the local collection of books about Bjelovar and Bjelovar- Bilogora County.

The library keeps the bound annuals of the old (from 1890 to 1943) Bjelovar newspapers "Demokratski glas", "Nezavisnost", "Bjelovarski vjesnik" and others, as well as the collection of native writers with handwritten legacies of prominent Croatian writers born in the Bjelovar area: Ivan Trnski, Đura Sudeta, Željko Sabol, Krsto Špoljar and others.