German Historical Museum
The collections of the German Historical Museum
Collections overview
› Picture Archive
Responsible:
Dr. Dieter Vorsteher
Picture Archive
The main task of the Picture Archive of the German Historical Museum is the photographic documentation of the collections.
Additionally, it buys
archives of professional photographers.
The Picture Archive holds the negatives of the
Picture Agency Schirner
(Berlin, Düsseldorf) and prints of the
Agency Schostal
(Paris, Vienna, Milan).
It also includes the
picture archive of the former Museum for German History.
For our loan service, please confer our
price list
(german).