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Mundaneum (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 months ago by eah@programming.dev to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] kaulquappus@feddit.org 4 points 5 months ago

The Mundaneum was an institution which aimed to gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system called the Universal Decimal Classification. [...]

[...] which eventually became an archive with more than 12 million index cards and documents.

Wow! ...

When Nazi Germany invaded Belgium in 1940, the Mundaneum was replaced with an exhibit of Third Reich art, and some material was lost.

... sigh.