Annual Report 2010 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

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Visitor numbers in Dresden in 2010
skulpturensammlung
Gemäldegalerie
Neue Meister
Gemäldegalerie
alte Meister
rüstkammer
Porzellansammlung
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2,642,099
If at some time in the future a seminar is held incorporating
examples of best­practice in museum business management,
the anniversary year of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden will have good chances of being
awarded first place: a record number of visitors with
more than 2.6 million visitors (2009: 1.75 million), record
revenues from permanent and special exhibitions
amounting to € 11.6 million (2009: € 8.8 million), a newly
opened permanent exhibition (the Türckische Cammer in
the Residenzschloss), the spectacular reopening of the
Skulpturensammlung and the Galerie Neue Meister in
the Albertinum, four fantastic special exhibitions (the
Anniversary Exhibition “Zukunft seit 1560”, “Triumph der
Blauen Schwerter” marking the tercentenary of the Meissen
Porcelain Manufactory, “Jeff Wall – Transit” in parallel
with the reopening of the Albertinum, and “The Early
Vermeer” in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister), and a
flamboyant anniversary programme featuring colloquia,
international conferences, lectures, lavish publications for
specialists and general visitors, and an acclaimed gala
concert by the Sächsische Staatskapelle – all of which
attracted a great deal of resonance in the media both in
Germany and abroad. Another feature that should not be
forgotten is the new admission price system which resulted
not only in record revenues, but also evoked an
extremely positive response from individual visitors and
tourist companies alike.
Zukunft seit 1560
Japanisches Palais
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
Kupferstich-Kabinett
Türckische Cammer
Völkerkundemuseum Herrnhut
Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden
Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig
Museum für sächsische Volkskunst
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Hausmannsturm / Münzkabinett
Neues Grünes Gewölbe
Historisches Grünes Gewölbe
The basis for the great success in the Residenzschloss,
which saw more than one million visitors, was the “house
price”, which for € 10 gave access to the Neues Grünes
Gewölbe, the newly opened Türckische Cammer, the special
exhibitions in the Kupferstich­Kabinett and the Anniversary
Exhibition “Zukunft seit 1560”. When in March
2010 the Türckische Cammer was opened, there was no
stopping the stream of visitors to the Residenzschloss,
and for some time there were scenes reminiscent of the
period just after the opening of the Historisches Grünes
Gewölbe in 2006. With nearly 300,000 visitors in just 10
months, this magnificent collection surpassed all expectations
and had the additional wonderful side­effect of increasing
the number of visitors to the Neues Grünes
Gewölbe to 420,000, a full 60,000 more than in 2009.
And anyone who thought that the million visitors to the
Residenzschloss would adversely affect the museums in
the Zwinger will have rubbed their eyes at the news that
490,000 visitors streamed into the Gemäldegalerie Alte
Meister and more than 160,000 visitors came to see Peter
Marino’s newly designed presentation of the important
Meissen animal figures in the Porzellansammlung. In association
with all the museums in Dresden and the new
ethnographical exhibition venues in Herrnhut and at the
GRASSI Museum in Leipzig, we celebrated an anniversary
year that can only be described by one word: sensational!
Dirk Burghardt
Commercial Director of the
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden