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The Ritman Library seems to be emerging from its recent struggles with the announcement of a new website http://www.ritmanlibrary.com and an exhibition entitled Infinite Fire in their Bloemstraat building in Amsterdam, opening on the 19th December.

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adammclean wrote:
The Ritman Library seems to be emerging from its recent struggles with the announcement of a new website http://www.ritmanlibrary.com and an exhibition entitled Infinite Fire in their Bloemstraat building in Amsterdam, opening on the 19th December.


More details here:

http://heterodoxology.com/2011/11/28/bibliotheca-philosophica-hermetica-opens-again/

Sounds quite promising...

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This recent press article (in Dutch) makes it clear that although the BPH may have re-opened it is just a shadow of its former self, with just 23000 of the less valuable books on the shelves and no staff:

http://www.depers.nl/economie/615036/Ritman-heropent-zijn-geplaagde-bibliotheek.html




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