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The first Polish Museum and Library had its seat in Rapperswil Castle between 1870 and 1927, and the second-one between 1936 and 1952. The present museum was founded in 1975 by Polish exiles and their Swiss friends. The Library is housed in the "Burghof" house (the seat of the Polish Cultural Foundation LIBERTAS), near the Rapperswil Castle.

The Library is an institution without fixed employees and without state subsidies.

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The Polish Library contains today about 20.000 volumes (also in western languages) related to Poland, Polish affairs and cultural life. The collecting profile reflects in general all target scopes of Polish Museum (Polish art, culture and history). 

Besides publications about Poles in Switzerland and the Swiss in Poland, the Library gathers the publications about cultural activities of Polish emigrants in the West after 1945, in particular Polish books and magazines published in exile, and finally old prints, chronicles and Polish classical literature. Our Library has also some interesting special collections, e.g. a comprehensive and well documented collection of old maps of Poland and adjacent regions. 

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