Acquisition and Accession Logs of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Berichtszeitraum 1830 – 1999

The accession books of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) still form the inventory of the museum collections and reflect the eventful history of the collection's development and the provenance of the holdings. The handwritten volumes of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst provide information on the conditions of acquisition, previous ownership and circumstances of discovery, as well as later losses or relocations of items in the collection.

In 1963, the Indian section was separated from the ethnological collection of the Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology) and continued as a separate art museum, the Museum für Indische Kunst (Museum of Indian Art). Part of the holdings of the South and Southeast Asia Collection of the Indian-Asian Department (formerly the Museum für Völkerkunde from 1904 to 1945) were transferred to the newly founded Museum für Indische Kunst in the 1960s.