Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) are among the most eminent museums in the world. A total of 15 museums and four institutions offer a unique variety of themes and objects. Historical sources date the foundation of the Kunstkammer in the Residenzschloss by Elector August to 1560. August the Strong was a notable connoisseur of arts. His systematically arranged art chambers, which were only accessible to selected circles at the time, form the core of the Dresden State Art Collections' wonderful art treasures. The museum collection management system robotron*Daphne is the key tool for all employees of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. So far approximately 1,000,000 objects have been catalogued.
Swiss Alpine Museum (alps)
Swiss Alpine Museum (alps)
The Swiss Alpine Museum (alps) is a medium-sized exhibition centre dedicated to current mountain topics and has maintained a collection of national importance since 1905. The diverse collection documents relationship of people with the mountains and focuses on mountain sports, tourism, and cartography. The collection comprises around 4,000 objects, 1,000 written documents, 13,000 prints and works of art and an estimated 500,000 photographs.
It was founded in 1905 by the Bern section of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) and is still maintained by the alps. Most of the contemporary testimonies come from Swiss people, documenting their work in the Alps and other mountainous regions of the world.
In 2023, the Swiss Alpine Museum had ca. 37,0000 records migrated from MuseumPlus Classic to robotron*Daphne which was used as a database and collection management tool.
Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections
TUD Dresden University of Technology - Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections
TUD Dresden University of Technology is one of the oldest educational institutions of technology in Germany and has a significant collection of scientific and technical artefacts as well as an extensive art collection. The objects collected in various research and teaching contexts serve not only as material witnesses to the university history of TU Dresden, but also as a valuable resource for collection-related research, teaching and science communication. Since autumn 2019, TU Dresden has been using robotron*Daphne, a modern database for the management and digitisation of its important collections.
Berlin Wall Foundation
Berlin Wall Foundation
The Berlin Wall Foundation with its two locations — the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial — documents, researches, and conveys the history of the Berlin Wall and the escape movements from the GDR as part and impact of the division of Germany and the East-West conflict in the 20th century. The collection and numerous interviews with contemporary witnesses have been documented using robotron*Daphne.
German Leather Museum
German Leather Museum
The German Leather Museum in Offenbach am Main has a unique collection of works made of leather and related materials giving it a unique selling point in the museum world. Recently, the museum has also opened to current developments and expanded its holdings to include exhibits made from alternative materials. Over 30,000 objects testify the global use and diverse cultural and historical significance of leather in different periods and cultures. Today the collection includes utility and luxury items ranging from handicrafts and design to fashion and everyday cultural artefacts. The museum has been using robotron*Daphne as a collection database since 2021.
Meissen Porcelain Museum
Meissen Porcelain Museum
The Meissen Porcelain Foundation Museum displays works from the 300 year-manufacturing history. Exhibits from all eras illustrate the work of Europe's oldest porcelain manufactory.
Since 2015, the Meissen Porcelain Foundation GmbH has owned the museum objects of the MEISSEN® State Porcelain Manufactory and manages the Porcelain Museum. The mission of Meissen Porcelain Foundation GmbH includes preserving the cultural heritage of Saxon porcelain production and porcelain craftsmanship. It is the owner of more than 33,000 museum artefacts, around 2,000 of which can be seen in the museum on a regular basis. Since 2016, the objects have been documented using robotron*Daphne.
Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt
Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt
The mission of the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt is to preserve and communicate the legacy of Martin Luther and the Reformation. Five museums are in its remit: the Luther House and the Melanchthon House in Wittenberg, Luther's family home in Mansfeld, Martin Luther's birth house and the "Luther's Death House" museum in Eisleben. The buildings, collections and exhibitions are maintained by the Foundation. The key tool for collection management is robotron*Daphne.
Stadtmuseum Berlin
Stadtmuseum Berlin
The Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin — Berlin State Museum of Culture and History — is a foundation under public law based in Berlin. The Stadtmuseum Berlin runs five museums in Berlin: the Märkisches Museum, the Nikolaikirche, the Ephraim-Palais and the Knoblauchhaus in Berlin-Mitte as well as the Museumsdorf Düppel in Zehlendorf. The cultural history museums exhibit Berlin's culture and history from prehistory and early history to the present day. The Stadtmuseum Berlin was founded in 1874 to preserve, research and present cultural artefacts relating to Berlin's urban and regional history. The documentation data of the objects and the results of scientific work as well as the organisation of work processes such as lending, registration, restoration, provenance research, exhibitions and the photo library are managed with the robotron*Daphne database developed by the Dresden-based company Robotron Datenbank-Software GmbH. As a daily working tool for around 40 employees at the Stadtmuseum, robotron*Daphne currently records more than 235,000 collection items and over 25,000 high-quality photos. Since spring 2013, the Stadtmuseum Berlin has also made its collections available online on its own "Collection Online" platform. This online service is directly linked to the robotron*Daphne database, so that all the information and editorial releases displayed are sourced directly from the cataloguing data.
Albrecht Mugler Foundation
Albrecht Mugler Foundation
The Albrecht Mugler Foundation is a foundation in Gersdorf dedicated to promoting education, art, science and research. In 2016, the founder of the foundation, Prof. Albrecht Mugler, decided to use the robotron*Daphne collection database to record his collection and artists' estates and to create catalogues raisonnés. The collection management system is also used, among other things, to document the regular exhibitions of contemporary art at the foundation's villa in Gersdorf.
Museum Schloss Lübben
Museum Schloss Lübben
Lübben (Spreewald) is the district town of the Dahme-Spreewald region in Lower Lusatia. The Spreewald town is part of the official settlement area of the Sorbs/Wends in Brandenburg. The town and regional museum is housed in the medieval castle ensamble, now run by the town council. The museum offers an overview of over 100 years of history and is primarily dedicated to the cultural history of the town of Lübben, Lower Lusatia and the Spreewald. Numerous exhibits focus on the culture of the Wends and Sorbs. The museum has been using robotron*Daphne as a collection database since 2020.
DDR Museum Berlin GmbH
DDR Museum Berlin GmbH
The DDR Museum is unique, extraordinary and one of the most visited museums in Berlin. It presents the everyday life of a bygone age in a “see and touch” exhibition that conveys history in a lively, interactive yet scientifically sound way. Everyday life - Wall - Stasi: The GDR at a glance! The DDR Museum collects and preserves GDR cultural assets. Over 250,000 objects belong to the museum's collection. The DDR Museum has been using robotron*Daphne as its collection management system since 2017.
Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum for Modern Art
Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum for Modern Art
The BLmK (formerly dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus) is part of the Brandenburg Cultural Foundation Cottbus under the aegis of the State of Brandenburg. The collection comprises a wide range of paintings, photographs, poster art, drawings, prints, artists' books and sculptures dating from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Founded in 1977, over 80% of the collection consists of art from the GDR and East Germany. The dkw. Cottbus has been a committed user of the robotron*Daphne collection database.
Kulturquartier Mecklenburg-Strelitz gGmbH
Kulturquartier Mecklenburg-Strelitz gGmbH
Neustrelitz, the residential town it the heart of Mecklenburg, together with the Cultural Quarter Mecklenburg-Strelitz, is home to a cultural institution that documents the history of the area of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, in particularly the features of founding the baroque town. The existing objects are documented using robotron*Daphne.
Kunstmuseum Reutlingen
Kunstmuseum Reutlingen
The Reutlinger Spendhaus, built in 1518 as a municipal storage building for donations, has been home the Municipal Art Museum since 1989. Since its founding, it has been dedicated in particular to modern woodcuts from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Accordingly, the focus of the Spendhaus Art Museum's collection and exhibition activities is on artistic letterpress printing in the 20th and 21st centuries. This specific profile has historical reasons, as two wood engravers stood out among the Reutlingen artists of the last century and their works form the core of the collection: Wilhelm Laage (1868-1930) and, above all, HAP Grieshaber (1909-1981). The Reutlingen Art Museum has been one of robotron*Daphne's first hosting customers since 2016.
LÜBECKER MUSEEN
LÜBECKER MUSEEN
The LÜBECKER MUSEEN are an association of 10 museums in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. The collections of over 300,000 objects include works of art from the Middle Ages to modern times, ethnographic objects, photographs, natural history objects, cultural and historical artefacts, manuscripts by important authors and more. The collections will be managed, catalogued and made accessible via robotron*Daphne starting from 2024. As an essential element of the digital concept of the LÜBECKER MUSEEN, robotron*Daphne serves the comprehensive digitisation of the collection. With robotron*Daphne, a growing knowledge repository is created and a networked and collaborative workflow for digital museum practice is implemented.
Deutsches Landwirtschaftsmuseum Schloss Blankenhain
Deutsches Landwirtschaftsmuseum Schloss Blankenhain
The German Agricultural Museum at the Blankenhain Castle offers unique exhibitions with impressive insights into rural living and working environments. The open-air museum currently comprises 80 buildings and facilities on the area of 13 hectares with over 100 thematic exhibitions, including the world's largest collection of extraordinary home-built tractors. Since 2019, the objects have been documented with robotron*Daphne.
Karl May Museum
Karl May Museum
The Karl May Museum is a unique place of education, experience and attraction for the cultural legacy of the writer Karl May (1842-1912). It is supported and run by the Karl May Foundation as Karl May's legitimate heir. The cultural institution preserves, researches, documents and conveys his literary and private estate as well as the ethnographic collections of his second wife Klara May and the artist Patty Frank at the place where the famous writer worked. Since 2019, the objects have been documented with robotron*Daphne.
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg. Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen
In the heart of the state capital Magdeburg you will find the art museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, the oldest preserved building in Magdeburg and also the most important exhibition site for contemporary art in Saxony-Anhalt. The ensemble of buildings is one of the most important and best-preserved Romanesque complexes in Germany. Today the buildings are used as an art museum for the city art collection and as an exhibition space for international art. As the starting point of the tourist Romanesque Route, the "Kloster" is located in the city center in the immediate vicinity of the Magdeburg Cathedral. The art museum has been using robotron*Daphne as a collection database since 2018.
Museum Viadrina
Museum Viadrina
The Museum Viadrina is the largest cultural and historical museum in East Brandenburg, which has its headquarters in a fascinating, nationally significant architectural monument: the "Junkerhaus". In its permanent and temporary exhibitions, the Museum Viadrina offers the opportunity to explore Frankfurt's important role in the Middle Ages, the history of the Alma Mater Viadrina, aspects of military history, Frankfurt's rich and famous musical history and urban developments up to the 20th century. The museum has been using robotron*Daphne as a collection database since 2018.
Von der Heydt Museum
Von der Heydt Museum
The Von der Heydt Museum has one of the richest collections in Germany. It focuses on Dutch art from the 16th and 17th centuries, 19th-century paintings and graphics with excellent paintings of Impressionism, and the 20th-century painting with Expressionism represented by outstanding works. This impressively extensive collection was created over the course of more than a hundred years through rich donations and gifts from the public as well as major acquisitions. The robotron*Daphne collection management system is the central working basis for all areas of the museum.
City of Rostock
City of Rostock
Rostock is a Hanseatic and university city on the Baltic Sea in northern Germany. It is the most populous city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and one of the four regional centers in the federal state. In a network of five museums and collections, several hundred thousand objects and extensive media are managed with the robotron*Daphne collection database. The institutions include:
- Cultural History Museum
- Shipbuilding and Maritime Museum
- Rostock Art Gallery
- Local History Museum Warnemünde
- Art Gallery
In addition to recording and digitization with robotron*Daphne, the presentation of selected objects on a joint website with robotron*Daphne-Collection is also planned.
Voigtsberg Castle
Voigtsberg Castle
The old walls look impressive at the foot of the castle hill in Oelsnitz/Vogtl. and cast a spell over visitors as they pass through the gatehouse. Voigtsberg Castle is quite an experience thanks to the accessible historical outer bastion and the unique view from the main tower over Oelsnitz and the Vogtland region. However, visitors will find the treasures inside the completely restored castle complex.
The thick, 775-year-old walls are now home to three museums, the historical costume museum, a restaurant and the Vogtland district historical archive. While the old part of Voigtsberg Castle, the core castle with its architectural history and early baroque wooden beam ceiling, wall paintings and St. George's Chapel takes you on a journey through time, the museums offer industrial culture in the Carpet Museum, rare mineral resources in the Mineral Vault and illustration art in the Illusorium.
Since 2020, the objects have been documented using the robotron*Daphne collection management system.
Wismar SCHABBELL City History Museum
Wismar SCHABBELL City History Museum
The City History Museum of the Hanseatic City of Wismar collects, preserves, researches and communicates all kinds of evidence of the history and culture of the Hanseatic city as well as its sphere of influence from the past and nowadays for present and future generations.
In 1863, committed citizens of Wismar began collecting artefacts relating to art and cultural history. Today, the collection comprises around 100,000 objects from the 13th to 21st centuries. Since 2023, the various areas of the collection have been digitised in the robotron*Daphne collection database and gradually made available to the public. Through the Daphne Collection we can provide an interesting insight into the diverse 800-year history of the Hanseatic city of Wismar.
City of Wolkenstein
City of Wolkenstein
The Wolkenstein Castle on a steep, 80-metre-high gneiss cliff greets and fascinates visitors from afar, inviting them to explore it. The museum in the castle provides further insights into the history of the building and the town. Since 2020, the objects have been documented with robotron*Daphne.
Schwerin Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
Schwerin Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
The collections managed by the Schwerin Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art consist of over 20,000 objects by almost 40 artists, most of which date back to the last century. robotron*Daphne has been used to manage the art collection since 2016.
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