Deventer - Athenaeum Library

A little way northwest of Deventer's Grote Kerk, in Noordenbergstraat/Klooster (No. 12), is the Athenaeum Library, founded in 1560, which contains 120,000 volumes, together with 500 manuscripts and incunabula (some of them from the old monastery which stood here). From 1630 to 1879 the library belonged to the Athenaeum College of Deventer. Across the street from the Library, at Klooster 3, are the Municipal Archives.