Historical Archive

Haus der Kunst opened its Historical Archive in 2005. A wealth of documents and other materials has been available to the public ever since. These materials provide insight into the institution’s historical development and exhibition business from 1933 to the 1970s.

After part of its inventory was presented to a broader public in the exhibition "Histories in Conflict" in 2012/2013 for the first time, plans were made to establish a permanent Archive Gallery in one of the Haus der Kunst's exhibition spaces in Fall 2013. The Archive Gallery is designed as an interdisciplinary exhibition and research center, which explores the museum's own history in the national and international context, as well as the role of art and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries and the relationship between the act of archiving and artistic production.