Central archive of the State Museums in Berlin

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Archaeological Center of the National Museums in Berlin

The central archive of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is a scientific institution that collects and makes available files from all individual collections and institutions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin . It documents the history of the National Museums in Berlin and its predecessor institution, the Royal Museums. It also manages art history collections, for example the bequests of Wilhelm von Bode , Anselm Feuerbach , Carl Wilhelm Kolbe , Adolph von Menzel , Christian Daniel Rauch , Johann Gottfried Schadow , Karl Friedrich Schinkel and a few other artists and art scholars.

The archive is located in the Archaeological Center in the vicinity of Museum Island . The director has been Petra Winter since April 2015 , she succeeded Jörn Grabowski , who headed the archive from 1992 to 2014 and established it in its current form.

structure

The central archive is divided into the following areas:

  1. Business files of the Royal and National Museums in Berlin until 1945
  2. Business files of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from 1945, business files of the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation from 1948 and 1957
  3. Files from associations and commissions (Art History Society, Kaiser Friedrich Museum Association, Association for the Preservation of the Art History Institute in Florence, German Folk Art Commission, Institute for Folk Art Research, German Museum Association )
  4. Bequests (including deposits)
  5. Archival collections
    1. Autograph collection (3,000 people)
    2. Documentation on the art of the 19th and 20th centuries (20,000 artists)
    3. Documentation of objects in the collections of the National Museums in Berlin that were relocated, missing and returned due to the war
    4. Special collection for the collection of modernism in the former Kronprinzen-Palais and for the “Degenerate Art” campaign in 1937
    5. Special collection on "Proletarian Art - ASSO"
    6. Documentation on the State Museums in Berlin
    7. Photo collection (historical building and room photos of museums)
    8. Poster collection
    9. Persons (here also museum employees from 1830, 2,100 folders)

history

A formal archive for the collection and administration of the files of the Royal, later State Museums in Berlin was only set up in 1960 and has since been located in the Pergamon Museum . In 1965 the archive of the Alte Nationalgalerie was established as a documentation facility in the art-historical area. It collects information on art of the 19th and 20th centuries, including modern art and so-called " degenerate art ". In the mid-1980s, the building archive of the State Museums was established, which collects the construction files of the individual buildings. In 1987 the three archives were merged to form the central archive of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin with final archive character.

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