The Hamburger Kunsthalle is currently focusing for the first time on examining, inventorying, restoring and digitising its extensive collection of around 6,000 coins, medals and plaques in a research project scheduled to last several years. These treasures, some of which have been slumbering in storage for 150 years and will now be systematically catalogued. They come from all major periods of art, from antiquity to modernism, and are being researched in terms of numismatics as well as their place in art history and our collection.
A documentary film provides a first glimpse of the research going on behind the scenes. It accompanies this first phase of the research project: the processes of discovery, ordering and basic cleaning, onward to inventorying, and culminating in digitisation and research into the objects’ numismatic and art historical context as well as their place in the history of the collection. The project thus effectively illustrates the core work of a museum - collecting, preserving and researching.
Film: Expermimentalsystem [www.experiment...]