The Mundaneum was created in 1910 out of the initiative of two Belgian lawyers. Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine aimed to gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system they developed called the Universal Decimal Classification. Otlet and La Fontaine organized an International Conference of International Associations which caused the creation of the Union of International Associations (UIA).

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  • The Mundaneum was created in 1910 out of the initiative of two Belgian lawyers. Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine aimed to gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system they developed called the Universal Decimal Classification. Otlet and La Fontaine organized an International Conference of International Associations which caused the creation of the Union of International Associations (UIA). Otlet regarded the project as the centerpiece of a new 'world city' - a centrepiece which eventually became an archive with more than 12 million index cards and documents. Some consider it a forerunner of the internet (or, perhaps more appropriately, of Wikipedia) and Otlet himself had dreams that one day, somehow, all the information he collected could be accessed by people from the comfort of their own homes. The Mundaneum was originally housed at the Palais du Cinquantenaire in Brussels (Belgium). The Mundaneum has since been relocated to a converted 1930s department store in Mons. An English pamphlet published in 1914 contains this description: The International Centre organises collections of world-wide importance. These collections are the International Museum, the International Library, the International Bibliographic Catalogue and the Universal Documentary Archives. These collections are conceived as parts of one universal body of documentation, as an encyclopedic survey of human knowledge, as an enormous intellectual warehouse of books, documents, catalogues and scientific objects. Established according to standardized methods, they are formed by assembling cooperative everything that the participating associations may gather or classify. Closely consolidated and coordinated in all of their parts and enriched by duplicates of all private works wherever undertaken, these collections will tend progressively to constitute a permanent and complete representation of the entire world. (Union of International Associations, 1914, p. 116). Otlet commissioned architect Le Corbusier to design a Mundaneum project to be built in Geneva, Switzerland in 1929. Although never built, the project triggered The Mundaneum Affair, a theoretical argument between Corbusier and Czech critic Karel Teige.
  • Paul Otlet und Henri La Fontaine gründeten 1898 in Brüssel das „Institut International de Bibliographie“ (IIB), dessen Zielsetzung es war, das gesamte Schrifttum der Welt zu erfassen. Sitz des Instituts war das Palais Mondial, das anlässlich einer Weltausstellung im Palais de Cinquantenaire errichtet und wenig später in „Mundaneum“ umbenannt wurde. Im „Mundaneum“ waren neben dem bibliografischen Institut und einer Bibliothek auch spezielle Sammlungen und ein Museum verortet, die ebenfalls den Anspruch hatten, einen repräsentativen Querschnitt der Weltkultur zu bieten. 1934 wurde das „Mundaneum“ in seiner alten Form geschlossen. Der Name „Mundaneum“ wird heute vom Centre d’Archives de la Communauté française de Belgique in Mons/Belgien weitergeführt Fälschlicherweise wird „Mundaneum“ oft als Name des Museums allein angesehen oder als Synonym für die Universelle Bibliothek verwendet.
  • Le Mundaneum est un système de classement bibliographique universel imaginé par Henri La Fontaine et Paul Otlet au XIX siècle. Certains y voient les prémices qui favoriseront l'avènement de l'Internet moins de cent ans plus tard.
  • Het Mundaneum is een museum dat gesticht is in 1910 door Paul Otlet (1868–1944) en Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943). Het museum is tegenwoordig gelegen in de Belgische stad Bergen. Het Mundaneum, ook wel het internet van papier genoemd, heeft een verzameling van zo'n zes kilometer papier. Het bevat vaste collecties zoals het Internationaal Museum van de Pers en persoonlijke notities van Otlet en La Fontaine.
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  • The Mundaneum was created in 1910 out of the initiative of two Belgian lawyers. Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine aimed to gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system they developed called the Universal Decimal Classification. Otlet and La Fontaine organized an International Conference of International Associations which caused the creation of the Union of International Associations (UIA).
  • Paul Otlet und Henri La Fontaine gründeten 1898 in Brüssel das „Institut International de Bibliographie“ (IIB), dessen Zielsetzung es war, das gesamte Schrifttum der Welt zu erfassen. Sitz des Instituts war das Palais Mondial, das anlässlich einer Weltausstellung im Palais de Cinquantenaire errichtet und wenig später in „Mundaneum“ umbenannt wurde.
  • Le Mundaneum est un système de classement bibliographique universel imaginé par Henri La Fontaine et Paul Otlet au XIX siècle. Certains y voient les prémices qui favoriseront l'avènement de l'Internet moins de cent ans plus tard.
  • Het Mundaneum is een museum dat gesticht is in 1910 door Paul Otlet (1868–1944) en Henri La Fontaine (1854–1943). Het museum is tegenwoordig gelegen in de Belgische stad Bergen. Het Mundaneum, ook wel het internet van papier genoemd, heeft een verzameling van zo'n zes kilometer papier. Het bevat vaste collecties zoals het Internationaal Museum van de Pers en persoonlijke notities van Otlet en La Fontaine.
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