Portfolio: WWII Provenance Research

KAM is committed to researching the WWII-era provenance of relevant objects in its collection. In 2007, the museum published its “gap list” of objects with incomplete provenance records for the crucial years 1933-1945 on the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP). To further its goal of transparency in this ongoing process, KAM is placing the gap list on the museum website and will update as new information becomes available. An object’s inclusion in the gap list does not indicate a problematic provenance. Rather, it reveals that the available information is inadequate to reconstruct or confirm a provenance, or that additional resources are required to complete the painstaking study.

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