Institute for Museum Research

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The Institute for Museum Research (IfM) is a nationwide research and documentation facility in the field of museums and museology based in Berlin-Dahlem . Bernhard Graf's successor was Patricia Rahemipour in 2019 .

Tasks and areas of activity

The IfM publishes, among other things, annual museum statistics and has an extensive special library . The tasks and areas of activity also include work in the areas of visitor research , long-term preservation , museum management , museum documentation , museum technology , museum education and museum law . It is also involved in a large number of national and international projects (including Fifties in Europe, ViMM). In addition, the museum department of the German Digital Library and the German branch of the Museu-HUB are located in the IfM. The IfM also provides technical support for the museum-digital project . museum-digital is supported by the museum associations of the federal states of Saxony-Anhalt and Rhineland-Palatinate and the aim is to make museum goods freely available in digital form via the Internet.

The IfM is an institution of the National Museums in Berlin sponsored by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and thus indirectly an institution of the federal government and various federal states. The IfM was founded in 1979 as an Institute for Museum Studies and renamed the Institute for Museum Research on August 1, 2006 by resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation .

In November 2007, the work center for provenance research / research was set up at the Institute for Museum Research . In November 2013, the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and Art, the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in response to the public debate gave Schwabing Art Fund , together forming a Task Force under Head of Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel known, who was coordinated by the Berlin Office for Provenance Research / Research (AfP) at the Institute for Museum Research ; In addition, works suspected of being looted were published on the platform of the Magdeburg coordination office . Since 2015, the tasks of the office for provenance research / research and the coordination office in Magdeburg have been taken over by the Foundation German Center for Cultural Property Losses .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for Museum Research. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
  2. ↑ Joint press release by the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and the Arts, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media , accessed on November 12, 2013.

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