 In 1928 the villa was too small for his collection and he bought an adjacent former school building to accommodate his books.After the war he resumed his long-standing project to build a "Library of world literature", or "Bodmer Library" in specially designed buildings, collecting the most significant messages of humankind, including not only literature and art, but also religion, history and politics.He left Zurich and transferred its collection to Cologny, just outside Geneva, on the shores of Lake Geneva.