Jules Verne Archive

Purpose of the archive

The Jules Verne Archive aims to set up, manage and maintain a collection of publications in the broadest sense, to support research by or for the Dutch Jules Verne Society.

Archive / Library

At this moment (November 2020), the library contains thousands of digitised items of all kinds, and is continually updated. An extensive databse has been created and is constantlyll texts can be searched electronically.

The archive contains, among others:

• Ca. 6000 scans of articles from newspapers, magazines and books, mostly related to Verne’s anniversaries (1878, 1903, 1905, 1928, 1930, 1953, 1955, 1978, 1980, 2005), or written on the occasion of new publications (in Dutch, English, German or French)
• Thousands of scans of historic advertisements for books, films and theatre plays, reviews, programmes etc.
• Information on radio plays, films, etc., as well as announcements and programmes from TV guides
• Almost all serialisations from magazines and newspapers
• Magazines of other Jules Verne organisations: Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne, Paris; Revue Jules Verne, Amiens, Cahiers, Nantes, Nautilus, Germany, and Extraordinary Voyages, USA
• And also: posters, postcards, bibliographies, catalogues, leaflets, correspondence, photos, a medal, press releases, advertisement materials, games, drawings, etc.

Selection from the archive

On this website, we occasionally present a selection of items from the Jules Verne archive.