Staatliche Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Staatliches Museum Schwerin

Since 1998, the provenance research of the Staatliche Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been dedicated to works of art that were acquired, transferred or inventoried after 1933 and whose provenance is incomplete or completely unknown - in accordance with the Washington Principles (1998) and the handout on the implementation of the declaration of the Federal Government, the Länder and the central municipal associations on the tracing and restitution of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution. In 2001, the museum published on its homepage the acquisitions of the Mecklenburg State Museum from 1933 to 1945, which may have been works of art from Jewish ownership or from other persecuted groups (external link). A list of the paintings and sculptures received by the museum after 1945 that were abandoned or expropriated can be viewed at external link

From 2009 to 2013, the Arbeitsstelle für Provenienzrecherche/-forschung (Provenance Research Office) at the Institut für Museumsforschung (Institute for Museum Research) in Berlin funded a research project by the art historian Dr Susanne Knuth, which dealt with the scientific examination, research and specification of the origin and history of the holdings that had come into the Mecklenburgische Landesmuseum or Staatliche Museum Schwerin, now Staatliche Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, since the 1930s. The project identified cultural assets seized as a result of Nazi persecution and compiled documentation of their provenance to facilitate the clarification of ownership.

Since 2020, Prof. Dr. Michael Busch has been responsible for provenance research at the Staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Information on other research projects of the Staatliche Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern can be found at: external link