text: The collection focuses on three different fields: first, the princely library, enriched by the English Princess Elizabeth’s collection of books and parts of the library of the princely Gymnasium Rutheneum in Gera, second, the princely collection of engravings, and third, the Satiricum with contemporary caricatures of national importance.
  Based upon the »ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums«, the Staatliche Bücher- und Kupferstichsammlung preserves, interprets and promotes natural and cultural inheritance of humanity. Its collections are meant to be of societal benefit and use. They are therefore continuously expanded according to the collecting concept. Promoting the collection’s significance and contextualising it historically and culturally is of top priority.