About Your Search Results
CONTENTS
1. What objects are included?
2. Does the Portal include all such objects in U.S. museums?
3. Does the Portal include Judaica?
4. What information does the Portal provide about objects?
5. My search returned no results. Does that mean my object
is not in a U.S. Museum collection?
6. Does the Portal include information about objects in sales
galleries, auction houses, or private collections?
7. Does the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal, the American
Alliance of Museums, or the organizations funding the Portal vouch
for the accuracy and completeness of the information about objects the
Portal provides?
1. What objects are included?
The Portal contains information only about objects that:
- were created before 1946 and acquired after 1932,
- underwent a change of ownership between 1932 and 1946, and
- were or might reasonably be thought to have been in continental Europe
between those dates.
In the event that a museum is unable to determine whether an object created
before 1946 and acquired after 1932 (a) might have been in continental
Europe between 1932 and 1946 and/or (b) underwent a change of ownership
during that period, it should still be included.
2. Does the Portal include all such objects
in U.S. museums?
Not at first. Due to the wide potential range of qualifying objects and
the necessity to begin listing objects as quickly as possible, the Portal
will focus first on European paintings, followed by sculpture, drawings, numbered prints, and other uniquely identifiable objects as resources allow. The Portal will not cover objects which are not uniquely identifiable; this includes most furniture, decorative arts, coins, etc.
3. Does the Portal include Judaica?
Initial listings of Judaica may be less complete than those for European paintings.
In the interim, the Portal will keep a record of whether participating museums
hold Judaica in their collections. To see a list of participating museums with
Judaica, visit our Museums
with Judaica page.
4. What information does the Portal provide
about objects?
The Portal requests the following information for each object listed
by a participating museum:
- Artist/Maker Name
- Nationality of Artist/Maker
- Place or Culture of Object (if Artist/Maker unknown)
- Object Title or Name
- Object Type (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
- Description
More complete information about the object can be obtained from the participating museum.
Each participating museum is responsible for all information provided
about objects in its collection. Questions or requests for additional
details about an object should be addressed directly to the participating
museum.
5. My search returned no results. Does that
mean my object is not in a U.S. Museum collection?
Not necessarily. Because provenance research is a work in progress, additional
museums may join the Portal and list objects for some time to
come. However, if you have constructed your search carefully using different
combinations of search terms and strategies (see Search
Instructions) and still found no matches, it is probable that the object
you seek is not part of the collection of any of the museums
participating in the Portal at the time you did your search.
6. Does the Portal include information about
objects in sales galleries, auction houses, or private collections?
No. The Portal includes information only about objects in U.S.
museum collections.
7. Does the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal,
the American Alliance of Museums, or the organizations funding the
Portal vouch for the accuracy and completeness of the information about
objects the Portal provides?
The individual museums participating in the Portal are ultimately responsible
for all information about objects held in their collections. The Portal
is a central finding aid to collections information, and is not itself
an authoritative database of that information. As such, the Portal itself
can make no warranty regarding the accuracy or completeness of the information
provided.
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