Search Tips for Museum Collections

CONTENTS


1. UK Museums in the Collections Trust Spoliation Reports


2. US Museum Search artworks for Provenances



3. Canadian Museums


4. European Museums Provenances



5. Swiss Museums Provenance Research Projects



6. US Museums with Provenance PDFs online




7. US Museums for which we were not able to find Provenance
(Please add comment with urls of provenances, if known)



8. GITHUB: Art Museum Collections Basic Reference Information Published on Github

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1. UK Museums


UK Museums central website to Spoliation Reports with artworks, provenances and questions (Collections Trust)



SEARCH TIP How to search on a keyword across all UK museums on the central Spoliation Report website (example: "private"): 
http://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/?s=private&institute=

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Museumurl Spoliation Reports UK Museums
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museumshttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/aberdeen-art-gallery-and-museums/
Amgueddfa Cymruhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/amgueddfa-cymru/
Ashmoleanhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/ashmolean/
Barber Institute of Fine Artshttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/barber-institute-of-fine-arts/
Birmingham Museums And Art Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/birmingham-museums-and-art-gallery/
Bowes Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/bowes-museum/
Bristol Museums & Art Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/bristol-museums-and-art-gallery/
British Libraryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/british-library/
British Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/british-museum/
Courtauld Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/courtauld-gallery/
Fitzwilliam Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/fitzwilliam-museum/
Glasgow Museumshttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/glasgow-museums/
Hull City Museums & Art Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/hull-city-museums-and-art-gallery/
Hunterian Museum & Art Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/hunterian-museum-and-art-gallery/
Imperial War Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/imperial-war-museum/
Ironbridge Gorge Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/ironbridge-gorge-museum/
Leicester City Museumshttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/leicester-city-museums/
Manchester City Gallerieshttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/manchester-city-galleries/
Museum of Londonhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/museum-of-london/
Museum Of The History Of Sciencehttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/museum-of-the-history-of-science/
National Army Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-army-museum/
National Galleries of Scotlandhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-galleries-of-scotland/
National Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-gallery/
National Library of Scotlandhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-library-of-scotland/
National Library of Waleshttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-library-of-wales/
National Maritime Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-maritime-museum/
National Museums & Galleries of Northern Irelandhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-museums-galleries-of-northern-ireland/
National Museums Liverpoolhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-museums-liverpool/
National Museums of Scotlandhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-museums-of-scotland/
National Portrait Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-portrait-gallery/
National Trust for Scotlandhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/national-trust-for-scotland/
Natural History Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/natural-history-museum/
Norfolk Museums Servicehttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/norfolk-museums-service/
Northampton Museumshttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/northampton-museums/
Pitt Rivers Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/pitt-rivers-museum/
Royal Air Force Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/royal-air-force-museum/
Royal Armouries Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/royal-armouries-museum/
Science Museum Grouphttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/science-museum-group/
Sir John Soane's Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/sir-john-soanes-museum/
Southampton City Art Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/southampton-city-art-gallery/
Tatehttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/tate/
Tyne and Wear Archives and Museumshttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/tyne-and-wear-archives-and-museums/
Victoria & Albert Museumhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/victoria-and-albert-museum/
Wallace Collectionhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/wallace-collection/
Whipple Museum Of The History Of Sciencehttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/whipple-museum-of-the-history-of-science/
Whitworth Art Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/whitworth-art-gallery/
York Art Galleryhttp://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/records/york-art-gallery/
additional resources for UK museums provenance research information - London -
TATE Provenance Research Project reports  archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20090105152137/http://www.culturalpropertyadvice.gov.uk/search_spoliations/index.html?sectionDetail=2&iID=tg UK TATE Download CSV of artworks with limited metadata ( metadata for around 70,000 artworks that Tate owns or jointly owns with the National Galleries of Scotland as part of ARTIST ROOMS



The metadata here is released under the Creative Commons Public Domain CC0 licence. Please see the enclosed LICENCE file for more detail.) https://github.com/tategallery/collection/blob/master/README.md

The National Gallery of Art in London List of works with incomplete provenance from 1933–1945

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/history/collection-history/whereabouts-of-paintings-1933-45 (archived copy here) British Museum : The following old master drawings have an incomplete or uncertain provenance for the period 1933-45 (PDF)

ARCHIVE of UK museum provenance research progress reports 


2. American Museums: search collections


AMM NEPIP - ACKLAND -AIC - ARKANSAS -BOSTON - CARNEGIE (CMOA) - CHRYSLER -CLEVELAND - DAM -DETROIT FREER SACKLER - FRED JONES (Okl) -FRICK -  GETTY  -  GUGGENHEIM - HARVARD -INDIANA U - INDIANAPOLIS - KIMBELL - LACMA - MOMA -NCMA - NELSON ATKINS NGA - NORTON SIMON-  PHILADELPHIA -  RINGLING - RISD -SLAM - THYSSEN - TOLEDO - VIRGINIA


4. European Museums Search Collections and Nazi-Era Provenance Projects




RIJKSMUSEUM - 


Kunstmuseum Den Haag (no provenance information in online collection search)



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Lost Art-Datenbank


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Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique  see description ( https://cultural-goods-wwii.fine-arts-museum.be/fr/accueil)


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German museums participating in the Flechtheim provenance project



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Belgian museums




5. Swiss Museums Provenance Projects


GURLITT:  

Nachlass Gurlitt - München: Kunstmuseum Bern (list of works)




6. American Museums WWII Era Provenance Research Project Online PDFs


Provenance of Select Works of Art in the Permanent Collection (retrieved May 27, 2022)


 Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (PDF dated 9/10/2013 published on internet:


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Tacoma Art Museum (PDF published on the internet  in 2015: Archived version here)

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Toledo Museum (PDF dated 2006: Archived version here) Artwork Provenance Listings by Artist, Title, and Dates —

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The Detroit Institute of Arts (original URL http://www.dia.org/art/provenancelistings.aspx, archived version here)



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Cantor Arts Center at Stanford UniversityNazi Era Provenance List 
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7. US Museums for which we were NOT able to find provenance online

(please add urls in comments if provenance is available)

Williams College Museum of Art WCMA
http://egallery.williams.edu/advancedsearch/objects/classifications%3APAINTING%3BendDate%3A1943


The High Museum


Rhode Island School of Design Museum
https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection


University of Michigan Museum of Art 
The provenance page https://umma.umich.edu/collections/provenance links to artworks but not, it appears, to provenance


The Hood Museum: unable to access provenance which demands a login



(update ongoing....)

SEARCH TIPS 

Sometimes it is faster and easier to search directly from the URL, just changing the search term.

For example, searching for Provenance in the European collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art:   https://www.vmfa.museum/collections/search-collections/?collection=European%20Art&keyword=provenance

This returns seven items. Click on each, then on "additional information". To change the search term, replace provenance  Other sources

Kulturhistorisches Museum Rostock  - SAMMLUNG BERNHARD A. BÖHMER Bestände der von den Nationalsozialisten beschlagnahmten Kunst im Kulturhistorischen Museum Rostoc

http://www.kulturhistorisches-museum-rostock.de/fileadmin/media/pdf/Gemaelde2.pdf

http://www.kulturhistorisches-museum-rostock.de/fileadmin/media/pdf/Aquarelle2.pdf

http://www.kulturhistorisches-museum-rostock.de/fileadmin/media/pdf/Druckgrafik2.pdf

http://www.kulturhistorisches-museum-rostock.de/fileadmin/media/pdf/Zeichnungen2.pdf

http://www.kulturhistorisches-museum-rostock.de/fileadmin/media/pdf/Herkunftsmuseum_unbekannt.pdf




8. GITHUB: Art Museum Collections Basic Reference Information Published on Github






Williams College Museum of Arthttps://github.com/wcmaart/collection
(note: WCMA dataset does NOT include provenance)


Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess







Carnegie Museum of Art: https://github.com/cmoa/collection

(note: the urls used by the Carnegie Museum of Art have changed. See Dataset with new urls derived from old https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRpLav1UHYn23pbJ9zJ3olU-M8tOfvbvk-l0TQ3PC9hBz9ByoqeiAkh5myRBAoDtshy9VUft3oR7RvK/pubhtml?gid=1082966715&single=true )


8 comments:

Anonymous said...

BERN
https://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/admin/data/hosts/kmb/files/page_editorial_paragraph_file/file/1705/gesamtliste_slg.praesentation_03.01.2022.pdf?lm=1641301608

Anonymous said...

see Kunstmuseum Basel http://sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&viewType=detailView&objectId=1497

Anonymous said...

Bern Munich Gurlitt files https://www.lootedart.com/web_images/pdf2014/141127_gurlitt_muenchen.pdf

Anonymous said...

Queensland Art Gallery provenance gaps list
https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/20089/6303_provenance.pdf

Anonymous said...

https://www.spsg.de/forschung-sammlungen/forschung/provenienzforschung/

PROVENIENZFORSCHUNG

Bereits seit 2004 untersucht die Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg ihre Sammlungsbestände auf unrechtmäßigen Besitz. Dabei können verschiedene Erwerbungshintergründe die Provenienz eines Objekts verdächtig werden lassen. Hierbei kann es sich um Kulturgüter handeln, die

1933-45 infolge der NS-Herrschaft ihren rechtmäßigen Eigentümern verfolgungsbedingt entzogen wurden (NS-Raub- und Fluchtgut)
1945/46 im Zuge der Bodenreform in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone (SBZ) durch die so genannten „Schlossbergungen“ enteignet und der Potsdamer Schlösserverwaltung überwiesen wurden
nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg von der Roten Armee aus Museen in der SBZ in die damalige Sowjetunion verbracht, im Zuge der großen Rückgabeaktion 1955-58 zwar wieder an die ehem. Regierung der DDR zurückgegeben, aber in dessen Folge irrtümlich an die falschen Museen, unter anderem die Potsdamer Schlösserverwaltung, verteilt wurden
1949-89 in der DDR ihren Eigentümern entzogen wurden (DDR-Unrecht).
Dank langjähriger, intensiver Forschungsarbeiten konnte die Herkunftsgeschichte vieler Gemälde, Skulpturen, Möbel und Metallobjekte geklärt und mehr als 150 Objekte an deren rechtmäßige Besitzer zurückgegeben werden.

Seit dem 1. April 2020 beschäftigt die Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg dauerhaft eine hauptamtliche Provenienzforscherin. Die Sammlungen werden nunmehr systematisch und kontinuierlich mit Augenmerk auf Objekte aus den oben beschriebenen Entziehungs- und Verlustkontexten erforscht.

Langfristig soll die Herkunft jedes Kunstwerks, dass nach 1933 für die Sammlungen der Stiftung erworben wurde, möglichst lückenlos aufgeklärt und die Forschungsergebnisse der Öffentlichkeit transparent kommuniziert werden.

KONTAKT

Dr. Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig
SPSG | Schlösserdirektion
Provenienzforschung
Postfach 60 14 62
14414 Potsdam
Tel.: 0331.96 94-874
Fax: 0331.96 94-104
u.schmiegelt(at)spsg.de

Anonymous said...

Städelmuseum https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en

Anonymous said...

Museum Ludwig
https://museum-ludwig.kulturelles-erbe-koeln.de

Anonymous said...

Provenance research Pinakothek

https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/provenience-online#filters={%22provenience%22:%22online%22}