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President · Founding member
Roger Liggenstorfer
Responsible for the association's strategic direction and public representation.
Association · founded 10 November 2012
The Association
An association on its way to becoming a charitable foundation – based in Solothurn, with a physical location planned in Basel from 2028.
An association exists under the name "Bibliotheca Psychonautica" (BP), based in 4500 Solothurn (Switzerland). On its founding on 10 November 2012, the statutes of the Verein Bibliotheca Psychonautica took effect and came into force. The statutes can be requested for inspection.
The association is committed to the aims set out above and, on the way to founding a charitable foundation, takes appropriate steps to build the library and, where useful, to complete and expand the holdings and make them accessible for possible research projects – for example through cataloguing, exhibitions, publications and so on. The board reports on progress at the annual general meeting and plans the next steps. It also decides which items in the collection (duplicate books, for instance) may be sold and which other important materials should be acquired.
The founding of the Verein Bibliotheca Psychonautica laid the cornerstone for a future foundation whose aim is to bring together and preserve substantial private collections of psychonautic literature, videos, DVDs, CDs, records, pictures, photographs, artworks, correspondence, diaries, research material and manuscripts – in order to build the most comprehensive possible library on drugs and altered states, keeping psychonautic knowledge of altered states of consciousness alive.
Core team
The people who keep the collection alive
Get involved
Preserving knowledge takes many hands
The Bibliotheca Psychonautica grows through people who secure books, sort out estates, open up sources or help build the project. A first, non-binding enquiry is welcome too.
Get involvedCollecting & Estates
Finding books, reporting collections, sorting estates together and handing them over safely.
Archive & Digitisation
Cataloguing, describing, scanning, transcribing or securing audiovisual sources.
Building the project
Helping with research, writing, translation, events, logistics or the database.
Locations
Two locations, one collection
since July 2013
Solothurn
Shelf space on the premises of Nachtschatten Verlag – the main location of the growing holdings.
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Basel
From 2028, a physical location is to be created here in cooperation with the Gaia Media foundation.
On the way to a foundation
The association is the precursor to a charitable foundation that will secure the holdings permanently.
Digitisation
Planned: digitisation of the archive materials and an AI-supported online database.
Accountability
The board reports on progress at the annual general meeting.
Membership
Four ways to support the library
Active members
€ 160.- / Fr. 200.- per year
- Access to the library, with borrowing
- Information on association activities, including attendance at the general meeting
- Reductions (students, or otherwise by arrangement): € 80.- / Fr. 100.- per year
Patron members and sponsors
from € 420.- / Fr. 500.- per year
- same terms as active members
- optional mention on the website
- privileged acquisition of duplicate copies
Passive members
€ 50.- / Fr. 60.- per year
- Access to the library, without borrowing
- Information on association activities, without attending general meetings
Free membership
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