Institute for Museum Research
The Institute for Museum Research ( IfM ) is a national institute of research and documentation organization in the field of museum work and museology with its headquarters in Berlin- Dahlem. The IfM is, among other things, an annual museum statistics out, has an extensive specialized library and is involved in numerous international research projects. The tasks and activities also include work in the areas of visitor research, long-term preservation, museum management, museum documentation, museum art, museum education and museum law. Head of the IFMS is Bernhard Graf.
The IfM is museum- digitally responsible, among other things, for the technical support of the project, which is supported by the museum associations of the states of Saxony -Anhalt and Rhineland -Palatinate and whose goal is to make museum items in digital form freely available on the internet.
The IfM is a facility of the National Museums in Berlin, sponsored by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and thus indirectly means the federal government and various states. The IfM has been renamed according to a decision of the Board of the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage on July 21, 2006, effective August 1, 2006 by " Institute for Museum " in " Institute for Museum Research ". In November 2007, the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation established the Center for provenance research / investigation.
In November 2013, the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and Art, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media jointly announced that in response to the public discussion on the Schwabing Art Fund, a Task Force 'm educated and have that mandated the federal government and Bavaria Ingeborg mountain Green- Merkel to take over the leadership of the task Force of the Berlin Center for provenance research / investigation ( AfP ) at the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation are coordinated will. In addition, consuming art suspicious works would be published on the platform of the coordinating body Magdeburg.