The idea of the Lobeliana Library rises from a need of conserving, in its entirety, valuable libraries of researchers related to the study of psychoactive drugs
It will be a library of libraries, a museum of books, since we consider that the value of a particular collection is unique, much greater than that of the sum of its individual books.
We have received as a donation the personal libraries of
We have received collections from authors of influential books on the subject, and key figures in the history of psychoactive drugs. We consider relevant to keep these collections as a whole, together, and in separate rooms. To date we have received over five thousand books.
Our library follows the legacy of the old libraries of paganism, those temples of knowledge burned down by intolerant ignorants.
Within the volumes we have today, there are unique copies and rare (deluxe) editions of important books which have had limited distribution and manuscrits and fotocopies of the infinte articles about ethnopharmacology, chemistry, ethnomycology, botnay, mycology, history, mythology, archeology, archeobotany, anthropology and art (non exhaustive).