Museums - Bancroft Library
Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
U.S.A.
510-642-6481
 | Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.;
Closed major holidays. Museum hours are subject to change. Please contact museum before visiting to confirm the information listed is correct. |
The Bancroft Library is the primary special collections library at the University of California, Berkeley. One of the largest and most heavily used libraries of manuscripts, rare books, and unique materials in the United States, it holds more 600,000 volumes; 60,000,000 manuscript items; 2,800,000 photographs/pictorial materials; and 23,000 maps. It is a vast resource for the study of ethnology, particularly relating to Native California and pre-Columbian Mexico.