Acquisition and Accession Logs of the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Reporting period 1890 – 1960

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s acquisition logs provide a record of the inventories of the museums’ collections and reflect the eventful history of the evolution of the collection and the provenance of the items that make them up, all the way up to the present day. These hand-written records of the Skulpturensammlung (Sculpture collection) und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst (Museum of Byzantine Art), noting information about the accession conditions, previous owners or the circumstances under which the artefacts were uncovered, as well as later losses or collection relocations.