Permanent collection

As a permanent collection of publicly available representative part is a museum permanent exhibition or teaching collection referred in art and science. The supplementary study collection , which is opened to the specialist public upon request, is separated from this. Study depots and magazines , on the other hand, are only partially accessible to the specialist public.

Structure of the holdings

The threefold structure of permanent collection, study collection and magazine has prevailed in the museum building for the spatially separate presentation and archiving of works of art since the 1920s and has since been increasingly supplemented by the fourth type of room, the exhibition hall available for current special exhibitions. With the advancing digitization , the presentation of the holdings on the Internet has also appeared, which, in addition to the highlights of the collection in the context of a general presentation of the museum, is increasingly making the magazine holdings available to the general public.

The Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne is an example of a four-part structure . The permanent exhibition there has remained unchanged since the museum was founded, while current exhibitions are shown in the special exhibition rooms. The study collection, on the other hand, is housed together with the museum library in the administration building and is spatially separated from the museum stacks.

With the organization of the four types of rooms of the museum, which deals museology which, with the mediation of the special and permanent exhibition spaces museum education .

See also

• Collect
• display case

literature

• Otto Homburger : Museum studies . Ferdinand Hirt in Breslau, 1924.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. z. B. SMB-digital , online database of the collections of the Berlin State Museums