The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has a scientific and scholarly infrastructure in place that is of national and international importance. The Staatliche Museen documents and digitizes its collections and thus makes them accessible to a wider public.

By bringing into effect its Digitization Strategy, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has pledged to focus its energies on the digital capture of the hundreds of thousands of objects in its care. As digital images, they can be suitably viewed and studied by the general public as well as by specialists. In addition to the digitization of its objects (pictures, sculptures, books, sound recordings, photographs and much more), all reference systems, such as library catalogues, archival finding aids, etc. used by the various collections and institutes are being made accessible via the Internet.

Collections Online, the platform for online research in the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, contains more than 270,000 objects. In addition to this gigantic virtual archive with details and background information about our objects, individual works and collections are also accessible via the websites for specific projects.