Color photograph of provenance research book covers.

Selected Museum Provenance Research Projects in the US and Abroad

USA

Each of the US websites listed here offers a searchable registry of objects that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era, 1933–1945, and/or whose provenance comprises gaps, as well as additional information such as contact email, definitions, bibliography, useful links, case studies, claim resolutions, etc.

Some museums, such as The Met, have many additional artworks listed on their website, with exhibitions history, references, and provenance.

AAM Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal (U.S. museum collections)

Art Institute of Chicago

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Cleveland Museum of Art

Detroit Institute of Art

J. Paul Getty Museum

Harvard Art Museums

University of Indianapolis Bloomington Eskenazi Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

• Collection (see the provenance panel on the object page for each artwork)
• Provenance Research Project
• Twentieth Anniversary of the Washington Principles on Holocaust-Era Art: Provenance Research Resource Hub

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Museum of Modern Art

National Gallery of Art:

• Collection
• WWII Provenance Research

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Princeton University Art Museum

Saint Louis Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum

Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative

Wadsworth Atheneum

Worcester Art Museum

Yale Art Gallery

Abroad

European museums do not typically post the provenance of national, regional, or municipal collections online (although there are exceptions), but they do list contact links and other useful information. The below is merely a selection, and includes some relevant research institutes.

Catalogue of the MNR (Musées Nationaux Récupération), France
Works of art retrieved from Germany by the Allies following World War II and repatriated to France, never claimed by their legitimate owners; since then under the aegis of the Musées de France