Library and Archives
Library and Archives
The Wallace Collection Library and Archives reflect the collections and history of the Museum and its founders.
We have material on the following subjects:
- Painting from the Old Masters to the mid-19th century
- French 17th- and 18th-century decorative arts
- European sculpture from the Renaissance to the 18th century
- Medieval and Renaissance decorative arts
- Bronzes (Renaissance, Baroque, French eighteenth-century)
- Sèvres porcelain
- Arms and Armour
- Portrait miniatures
- Maiolica
- History of collecting
We also have digitised material available online via the Internet Archive:
- Herford House Visitors Book, 1876–1897
- Domenico Gasperoni's Artiglieria Veneta (a rare eighteenth-century part print, part manuscript book on Venetian cannons, consisting largely of printed engravings of cannons and artillery tactics)
If you have any queries about using the library, please read our FAQs
The Wallace Collection Library and Archives is open
The Wallace Collection Library and Archives is now open, but due to social distancing spaces will be limited to 4.
The Library is available by appointment only Tuesday–Friday, 10.00–17.00, and closes for an hour at lunchtime between 13.30–14.30. The Library will be closed for the holidays from 20 December - 3 January 2022.
To make an appointment or if you have any questions please get in touch by email on library@wallacecollection.org or by calling 0207 563 9586.
Appointments are necessary as most of our collections are housed in staff offices, so please allow 48 hours’ notice for requesting any material and no more than 5 books at a time, but you can order more after you arrive.
