Bienes Museum of the Modern Book

The Bienes Museum is home to special collections totaling more than 15,000 items, including rare books, artifacts, manuscripts, and reference materials.

The Bienes Museum houses important collections, including the Jean Fitzgerald WPA Federal Writers' Project; WPA Museum Extension Project; WPA and other New Deal agencies, 1932–1942; the Paulette and Robert Greene Collection of Books about Books and Florida Fine Press publications; Floridiana (including archives and papers of the Florida authors Charles Willeford, Michael Shaara, Connie May Fowler,[1] and Olivia Goldsmith); Florida Artists' Book Collection; J.D.

The collection contains ABC books in the following languages: Arabic, Cherokee, Chinese, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, American Sign Language, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian, and Yiddish.

The collection also contains items such as toys and games, ceramics, clothing, rubber stamps, flash cards, jigsaw puzzles, and wrapping paper.

The collection includes first editions, signed and numbered copies, artists' books, and other rare and out of print titles dating from the late 19th century to the present.

The books are based on comic strips, movies, radio shows, and children's classics and feature characters like Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Blondie, Dagwood, Little Orphan Annie, Mickey Mouse, Tom Mix, and Tarzan.

This collection features works by Vojtech Kubasta who is a Czech paper engineer, children's book illustrator, and graphic designer.