The Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages (german: Esperantomuseum und Sammlung für Plansprachen, eo, Esperantomuzeo kaj kolekto por planlingvoj), commonly known as the Esperanto Museum, is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

for

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

and other

constructed language A constructed language (sometimes called a conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised for a work of fiction. ...

s in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. It was founded in 1927 by Hofrat Hugo Steiner and was incorporated into the

Austrian National Library The Austrian National Library (german: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in center of V ...

as an independent collection in 1928. Today, it is a museum, library, documentation center, and archive. It accommodates the largest collection of constructed languages in the world and a linguistic research library for language planning.(eo) Bernhard Tuider, "La Kolekto por Planlingvoj kaj la Esperantomuzeo de la Aŭstria Nacia Biblioteko. Historio, havaĵo kaj esplorebloj", in
Języ, Komunikacja. Informacja. Language. Communication. Information
(PDF) I. Koutny (red./ed.) 10/2015: 184–195. Its catalogue is available online. Since 2005, the museum has been located in the

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Palais Mollard-Clary Palais Mollard-Clary is a Baroque architecture, Baroque palace in Vienna, Austria. It is located in the first district Innere Stadt, at Herrengasse 9. It was built from 1686 to 1689 for Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Imperial Count Franz Maximili ...

. The museum holds around 35,000 library volumes, 3700 periodical titles, 3500

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s, 10,000 autographs and manuscripts, 22,000 photographs and photographic negatives, 1500 posters, and 40,000 pamphlets. Overall, approximately 500 various planned languages are documented, of which the most important is

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