Also known as Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (or Bodmer Library), it is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Some manuscripts are written in Greek, others in Coptic (e.g. Papyrus Bodmer III).

Bodmer selected the works centering on what he saw as the five pillars of world literature: the Bible, Homer, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

He connected the cellars of the two houses by a two-story underground structure, pierced by light shafts.

He aimed at representing the historical context by adding political, philosophical and scientific items.