Fadrique de Basilea Book Museum – Burgos, Spain - Atlas Obscura

Fadrique de Basilea Book Museum

A delightful museum devoted to the history of books. 

11
104
Sorry, Fadrique de Basilea Book Museum is permanently closed.

This small museum tucked away in a narrow four-story building in Burgos’ Old Town covers an unusual theme: the history of books. 

The collection is divided into four sections chronicling the evolution of the printed word: the origin of books, the Enlightened Middle Ages, the Guttenberg universe, and the 19th and 20th centuries. It displays facsimiles of some of the greatest books ever published, but one would be hard-pressed to tell them from the original.

Though the museum is based in an old building, the interior is unexpectedly modern and the displays are very imaginatively presented. Visitors usually start at the top floor and work downwards, from the oldest writing devices such as papyrus scrolls to the digital books of the present day. 

On the outside of the building, to the rear, look out for a delightful bronze statue of a small boy reading a book on the window ledge.

Know Before You Go

Closed on Sundays and Mondays. Admission €2.50. There are some English labels but the majority of information is in Spanish. There is an app to overcome this but even a minimal amount of Spanish would be a great help.

Community Contributors
Edited by

October 4, 2018

Make an Edit Add Photos
Want to see fewer ads? Become a Member.
From Around the Web
https://assets.atlasobscura.com/places/fadrique-de-basilea-book-museum
assets.atlasobscura.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2022-33
225260
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:ILIJZDTBQOP4VDV4OK6XRYBOMZP3QMKN
<urn:uuid:b705addd-a040-4b70-bf88-9f643f67ab7e>
2022-08-19T01:30:52Z
104.26.1.248
text/html
sha1:5AQ6PPTFEIWLJLCVYENLMK5WOVD7HFJ3
<urn:uuid:d21a319b-b926-4231-9e48-0837e644da60>
https://assets.atlasobscura.com/places/fadrique-de-basilea-book-museum
response
<urn:uuid:b2736123-d20f-4b82-9864-e7ab99ed9030>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-33
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for August 2022
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-141
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/