AAM: Provenance Research Seminar

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World War II Provenance Research Seminar:
A New Era of Collaboration and Digitized Resources
May 6-7
United States National Archives
Washington, DC
Sponsored by AAM, the National Archives, the American Association of Art Museum Directors and the Smithsonian Institution, with additional support provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

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DESCRIPTION

Join colleagues in the nation's capital for a two-day seminar focused on the enormous progress made in recent years to increase access to materials and documents pertaining to cultural objects looted during the Second World War. This program coincides with the unveiling of the most ambitious of such projects—the public launch of a web portal linking researchers to archival materials from the United States National Archives, the German Bundesarchiv, the National Archives of the United Kingdom and several other international partners around the world.

Who Should Attend?
This program is aimed towards curators, registrars, provenance researchers, and all those interested in the processes of archival research.

How Will I Benefit?
After participating in this program, attendees will be better able toincrease awarenss of, familiarity with and access to new resources and strategies for provenance research, current international collaborative projects and newly accessible electronic tools.

Sessions
One session of the seminar will be devoted to the presentation of the web portal to attendees, and will familiarize them with the descriptions of records from participating repositories and digital images of the records themselves.

Additional sessions will include representatives of important art historical archival repositories presenting other resources, newly digitized records and plans for future projects. Experts in provenance research will guide discussions on how to best utilize these materials, share results of recent and on-going research projects and recommend new approaches and systematic strategies in regards to museum collection research.

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SPEAKERS

Lynn H. Nicholas, independent scholar and author of The Rape of Europa
Nancy H.Yeide, National Gallery of Art and author of Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection
Greg Bradsher, U.S. National Archives and author of Holocaust-Era Assets: A Finding Aid to Records at the National Archives
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Representatives from the
Archives of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Harvard Art Museums
Getty Research Institute
Frick Center for the History of Collecting in America
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich.

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SPONSORSHIP

The seminar is sponsored by the United States National Archives, the Association of Art Museum Directors, the American Association of Museums and the Smithsonian Institution, with additional support provided by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

The Kress Foundation offers a travel stipend on a first-come, first-served basis to museums with Kress collections. Applications have been mailed to these museums.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Map of National Archives and environs
Nearby hotels
Nearby restaurants

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