Due to the expansion of open storage, from August 3 Garage Library will no longer be located in the Seasons of the Year pavilion. The new location and opening date will be announced later.

Please note

Due to&nbsp;the expansion of&nbsp;open storage, from August 3 Garage Library will no&nbsp;longer be&nbsp;located in&nbsp;the Seasons of&nbsp;the Year pavilion. The new location and opening date will be&nbsp;announced later.
On&nbsp;Thursday August 6, the Museum, Caf&eacute; and Shop will be&nbsp;closed from 18:30.

7-9 years 

10-14 years 

15-17 years 

0-6 years 

Architecture

Photo

Journalism

Psychology

Music

Family

Stream

Series

Seminars, Workshops and Training

Lectures & Talks

Concerts & Performances

Film Screenings

Exhibitions

Courses

Tours

Concerts & performances

Conferences

Exhibitions & projects

News

Interview

Talks

Lecture cycles

Conferences and seminars

Book presentations

Art Guide

Garage publishing program

Sponsors, patrons, and partners

Information partners

Garage publishing program in collaboration with Artguide Editions

Garage International Publishing Program

Library events

Books in english

Garage Screen

Russian

English

Bilingual (russian/english)

Film programs

GARAGE Club

Programs for exhibitions

Events

Garage Live

Garage Dance

Academic program

Grants

Field research

Patronship

Garage Studios

Mosaic Music

GARAGE Student

Garage.txt

Film festival

Film distribution

Sign language

Mental disabilities

Migration

Audio description

Tactile models

Accessibility guide

Physical accessibility

GARAGE Individual

Digital accessibility

Diversity

Events at Garage

Garage publishing program and Strelka Press 

Text

Audio

Video

Feature

Guide

GARAGE Individual +1

Research laboratories

Artistic research

Translation to russian sign language

Subtitles

Adapted tours

Quiet room

Translation to uzbek, tajik, and kyrgyz

GARAGE Premium

“We Treasure Our Lucid Dreams”

Space 1520

Contemporary Critical Thought

Directors’ series

The Garage Journal

GARAGE Circle

Temporality

Disability

Affect

Overcoming

Body

Timelessness

Non-normative body

GARAGE Collectors Circle  

Experience of the other

Otherness

Developmental disabilities

Mental health

Trauma

Personal experience

Neural networks

Language

7-11 years

Plain language

Garage Café

The computer class schedule

Mediation

Oleg Baranov Going Down

Podcasts

Shelf of the Month. Theatrе

Publishing program page

Series of meetings with residents

Open call

Shelf of the Month. Cinema

Shelf of the Month. Modern Dance

Projects Oral History and Oral History 2.0

Visitors in a wheelchair

garage-txt

Open storage

Research Laboratory: I Am a Parcel, You Are a Stamp

VOKS kinema Research Laboratory

Avant-Garde Center Laboratory for the Study of Soviet Art Series

LISI_TsA

Region reviews

Artist reviews

Thematic reviews

Exhibition reviews

Archive in St. Petersburg

8-14

Publishing program multipage

Public programs

Free

Registration required

Free for exhibition ticket holders

Paid

Booking required

Booking via phone or email is required

Booking on reception is required

Off-site projects

Architecture and design

Supervision

Museology

Philosophy

Economy

Cinematography

Critical biography

Memoirs and diaries

For Garage card holders

Exhibition catalogues

Research

For children

GARAGE + Ad Marginem

GARAGE PRO

Minima

Paperback

Hardcover

Hardcover with dust jacket

Book Selection

Professional programs

Video review

Garage publishing program in collaboration with Ad Marginem Press

Garage publishing program in collaboration with Ad Marginem Press. GARAGE PRO Series

Garage publishing program in collaboration with Ad Marginem Press. Minima Series

City tours

Exhibition tours

Seminars, workshops & training

Lectures & talks

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has a public library on Russian and international contemporary art open to all visitors. Garage Library is a reference library and has a collection of 45,000 books, including catalogues of solo and group exhibitions and studies on contemporary art and culture. 
Launched in 2014, Garage Library became the first public library in Russia devoted entirely to the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Publications available at the library cover a wide range of subjects related to the development of art from early modernism and the avant-garde to the present day: artistic practices, contemporary philosophy, cultural studies, social theory, gender and postcolonial studies, media theory, visual studies, photography, architecture, design, cinema, theatre, and fiction


The collection keeps expanding with the addition of new publications. Along with exhibition catalogues from Russian and international museums (Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Stedelijk, Centre Pompidou, MoMA), the library acquires new studies released by leading Russian and international publishers (NLO, HSE, MIT Press, Hatje Cantz, Gestalten). In addition to new releases, the library boasts a collection of rare books.

<div class="text__cutted">
A wide selection of periodicals from across the world includes key journals on visual art (Artforum, Flash Art, Mousse), photography (Aperture, Camera Austria, Foam) and architecture (Architectural Review, Domus, Mark). Along with recent issues, the library holds copies of rare archived issues of art theory and criticism journals (October, Third Text), and Russian periodicals from before and after perestroika (A-Ya, Mesto pechati, Kabinet, Dekorativnoye iskusstvo).


All books and catalogues published by Garage, including those in collaboration with Ad Marginem Press, are also available at the library.
Visitors can access the <a href="/en/catalogue">online catalogue</a> to search for books and periodicals by subject, key words, authors, and personalities. 
Several tables at the library are equipped with computers; visitors have access to the Internet and academic resources like Artstor and JSTOR, and are welcome to use the free scanners.
To bring books in its collection to the public attention, Garage Library runs a program of public events and reading groups.
In 2017, the library launched <a style="font-style: italic;" href="/en/news/contemporary-artists-from-russia-to-create-books-for-garage-library">Single Copy</a>, a project to support the development of the genre of the artist’s book in Russia.
<h2>Guidelines for Garage Library visitors</h2>
1. Garage Library is open by appointment seven days a week. The number of visitors allowed in the library space at any one time is limited to twenty. We ask visitors to observe a safe distance.
2. Library visitors must wear masks. We also recommend wearing gloves.
3. Applications to work in the library should be sent to <a href="mailto:library.visit@garagemca.org">library.visit@garagemca.org</a>&nbsp;and must be submitted no later than 24 hours before the planned visit. The librarian will confirm the visit during the working day. Applications received after 21:00 will be processed on the following day, which may affect the date of the visit.
In the application, please indicate the planned date and time of your visit (from 11:00 to 21:00). Time in the library is limited to two hours.
</div>

Library

Contact&nbsp;Us

Hours

GARAGE Card

Today at Garage

Youtube

Telegram

Mailing list

Subscribe to our mailing list and get the latest news from Garage

Press Mailing List

To join our press mailing list, please include your email address in the field

key:subscription

Film screenings in the Museum auditorium

GARAGE SCREEN

The first public contemporary art library in Russia

Podcast about contemporary non-fiction from the Publishing Department at Garage

Lessons in World Artistic Culture Podcast

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s collection was founded in 2024 and includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, objects, and installations created by Russian artists since 1980

Library catalogue

Filters

Language

Sort by

Storage location