Print room

As of Prints and Drawings are referred to the special collection of drawings and prints, not only of engravings, a museum. For this reason, alternative concepts more modern coinage as " Graphic Collection " or " Graphic Arts Cabinet " of these are common.

The term Cabinet is derived from a smaller space within a castle where a prince kept his special collections. He was called also Wunderkammer or Cabinet Art. This princely collections were the precursor of the public museums.

Large copper engraving cabinets, there are, for example, in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Louvre in Paris, the Albertina in Vienna, the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Public collections (selection)

Germany

• Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prints and Drawings
• Kunstmuseum Bonn
• Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum, Prints and Drawings, Braunschweig
• Kunsthalle Bremen, Prints and Drawings
• Art collections of the Veste Coburg, Prints and Drawings
• Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt
• Cabinet of Prints Dresden State Art Collections
• Museum art palace, Dusseldorf
• Städel, Frankfurt am Main
• Hamburger Kunsthalle, Prints and Drawings
• Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg
• Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Prints and Drawings
• Staatliche Museen Kassel
• Wallraf -Richartz Museum, Cologne
• Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
• National Graphic Arts Collection, Munich
• Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg
• Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Prints and Drawings
• State Gallery of Stuttgart
• Castle Museum, Weimar

Netherlands

• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• Teylers Museum, Haarlem
• Prentenkabinet, Leiden University

Austria

• Albertina, Vienna
• Graphic Collection Göttweig
• Old Gallery, Prints and Drawings, Graz
• Academy of Fine Arts, Graphic Collection, Vienna

Switzerland

• Basel Art Museum, Prints and Drawings
• Prints and Drawings Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich