The posters are documents with ephemeral nature, made to provide information about an event, to announce a new product or to persuade the masses to attending an event.

Exceptional collection for the quality and quantity of their works, a spanish artists, but the majority of engravers foreigners were dedicated to this field of art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The poster or commercial aims mainly at the sale of goods or the dissemination of an event or activity.

The posters of spectacles experience a moment of glory in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the rise of the bourgeoisie, which you can dedicate more time and resources to leisure and cultural consumption.

An advertising of all kinds of products and commercial establishments

The BNE retains a label proves excellent products consumed in the early decades of the twentieth century, such as canned fruit, sweets, spices, drinks, tobacco, weaving, cleaning products, print, etc.

As an example of games creation on paper for the more pure entertainment are magnificent collections that retains the BNE cutout of cards, and theatres.

Congratulations, papers charter flowing orlas, invoices and commercial letters and postcards belonging to the collection of Ephemera of bibliography fulfil their role as a means of transmission of a written message.

There are official in Ephemera with a well-defined: report on certain celebrations private normally nature.

"extensive and varied range of pictorial developed with a specific purpose that their aim is to survive the timeliness of its message".

Furniture, sculptures, musical instruments, music equipment mechanics, typewriters and industrial equipment related to the arts of the book

This collection consists of printed works in spain it receives under intellectual property laws and the law on Legal Deposit, and it increases regularly through purchase, exchange or donation, in accordance with the criteria established for the development of the collections throughout its history.