Theatre Special Libraries and Museums
Special Libraries
from the Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers, 40th ed., 2012
Academy of Drama, Film & Television Library
Vas U 2c Pf 272 H 1044
H-1088 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: 36 1 1188111
Subjects: Theatre, film.
Adelaide Festival Centre Trust - Performing Arts Collection of South Australia
Adelaide Festival Centre
GPO Box 1269
Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
Phone: 61 8 82168769
Subjects: Drama, music theatre, dance, music, opera (including areas of film, radio, circus, and television).
Amateur Theatre Council of Iceland Library
Laugavegur 96
IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland
Phone: 354 1 5516974
Subjects: Theatre, plays.
American Mime, Inc. - Library
61 4th Ave.
New York, NY 10003-5204 USA
Phone: 212-777-1710
Subjects: History of the American Mime Theatre.
Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection
Via del Sudario, 44
00186 Rome, Italy
Phone: 39 6 6819471
Subjects: Performing arts, theater, literature.
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Library
Ravala pst 16
10143 Tallinn, Estonia
Phone: 372 6 675751
Subjects: Music, theater, humanities, social sciences.
Habimah National Theatre - Ministry of Education and Culture Library
Tarsat Blvd.
64283 Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone: 972 3 284102
Subjects: Performing arts.
Hampden-Booth Theatre Library
The Players
16 Gramercy Pk., S.
New York, NY 10003 USA
Phone: 212-228-1861
Subjects: American and English theater.
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Juan March Foundation - Music and Theatre Contemporary Spanish Library
Castello 77
E-28006 Madrid, Spain
Phone: 34 1 4354240
Subjects: 19th- and 20th-century Spanish theater, 19th- and 20th-century Spanish music, magic, Julio Cortazar.
Maly Classical Theatre Library
Teatralnaya pl, 1/6
103009 Moscow, Russia
Phone: 7 95 9244083
Subjects: Music, performing arts.
1, Theatre Sq.
190000 St. Petersburg, Russia
Phone: 7 812 3264141
Subjects: Performing arts, musicology, ballet.
Municipal Library of Prague Central Library - Theatre and Film Department
Marianske nam. 1/98
115 72 Prague, Czech Republic
Phone: 420 222 113389
Subjects: Theater, drama, performing arts.
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre - Irene Lewisohn Library
340 E. 54th St.
New York, NY 10022 USA
Phone: 212-688-3770
Subjects: Drama, theater, biography, literature.
New Zealand Drama School - Nola Millar Library
Te Whaea: National Dance & Drama Centre
11 Hutchison Rd.
Newtown
Wellington 6021, New Zealand
Phone: 64 4 3819219
Subjects: Performing arts, theatre.
Royal Shakespeare Company - Collection
The Courtyard Theatre
Southern Ln.
Warwickshire
Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6BB, United Kingdom
Phone: 44 800 1110
Subjects: Theater, history.
pl. Ostrovskogo, 6
191011 St. Petersburg, Russia
Phone: 7 812 3101029
Subjects: Russian music and performing arts.
St. Petersburg Union of Theatre Workers Library
Nevski pr., 86
191025 St. Petersburg, Russia
Phone: 7 812 2794281
Subjects: Performing arts.
Swiss Theatre Collection Library
Schanzenstrasse 15
CH-3001 Berne, Switzerland
Phone: 41 31 3015252
Subjects: Performing arts in Switzerland.
The Bakhrushin Theatre Museum - Dept of Book Funds Library
ul. Bachrusina, 31/12
115054 Moscow, Russia
Phone: 7 495 9534418
Subjects: Theatre, music, culture, performing arts, fine arts, history.
The Institute of the American Musical, Inc.
121 N. Detroit St.
Los Angeles, CA 90036-2915 USA
Phone: 323-934-1221
Subjects: American musical theatre and film, broadcasting, music, world's fairs, and allied areas of showmanship.
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Haapaniemenkatu 6
PO Box 163
FIN-00531 Helsinki, Finland
Phone: 358 400 792096
Subjects: Drama, theatre, dance.
Theatre Museum of Repertoire Americana
405 E. Threshers Rd.
Mount Pleasant, IA 52641 USA
Phone: 319-385-9432
Subjects: Small opera houses, repertoire theatre, scenery of repertoire theatre, tent shows, plays of repertoire, Chautauquas.
University of Copenhagen - Theatre Research Section Library
Bldg. 21, 5th Fl.
Karen Blixens vej 1
DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Phone: 45 35323736
Subjects: Theater.
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