Science fiction libraries and museums

Key collections

List of archives, libraries, museums, and collections

Research collections

• lending library of over 20,000 volumes of speculative fiction at Eastern New Mexico University. Includes archival materials from authors.
• , Special Collections and Archives, Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool
• , University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections Dept.
• at The Rare Book & Manuscript Library
• , Toronto Public Library
• ; includes , , and Science Fiction Writers of America depository
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• lending library of over 12,000 volumes of speculative fiction at the California Institute of Technology
• , Temple University Libraries, including a significant
• Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
• Northern Illinois University. Science Fiction Writers of America depository, pulps, and collects the papers of current SF authors.
• University of Delaware's Special Collections, including the "Roland Bounds Science Fiction Collection"
• Georgia Tech's
• Texas A&M University's
• San Diego State University's
• at the
• at the , University of Kansas
• public library founded 2010 by :de:Helmuth W. Mommers, holding 50,000 volumes mainly in German, including a broad collection of German "Dime Novels"
• , San Francisco Public Library
• collects science fiction in English and German and has archival collections from Willy Ley and Robert Forward.

• , Stanford University Library

  Museums

• Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Seattle, Washington, founded in 2004.
• Maison d’Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
• Museum of Science Fiction, Washington, DC, founded in 2013 with a goal of becoming the world's first comprehensive science fiction museum.

  Important databases and portals

• , the University of Liverpool Library's "Science Fiction Foundation" collection
• , University of Kansas
• , the Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
• maintained by The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction
• , a growing wiki of the locations of SF writers' papers, crowd-sourced by librarians.