2008 - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

stabilisation of visitor numbers, particularly in times of economic
difficulty. A further focal point is research concerning the museums’
holdings. Through the “Daphne” museum database project, the
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden have succeeded in launching
a project that has won both national and international acclaim.
From 2008 and initially up to 2015 a total budget of 15 million Euro
and 65 additional staff have been made available for the investigation
and digital documentation of all 1.2 million objects held in
the museums. This involves thorough-going provenance research.
In 2008 the preparations were made for converting the Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen Dresden into a public enterprise as of 1st January
2009. This move, and the concomitant introduction of commercial
accounting, is associated with greater flexibility and control of
affairs, but also with increased responsibility on the part of the indi-
Porzellansammlung
Skulpturensammlung
Schlossausstellung / Hausmannsturm / Münzkabinett
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst
Kupferstich-Kabinett
Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau
Other
Neues Grünes Gewölbe
Historisches Grünes Gewölbe
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Rüstkammer
vidual museums for dealing with their own budgeting and financial
management. In addition, it is intended that the economic instruments
available to a public enterprise will provide ways of compensating
for the radical staffing cuts of the past five years. The year
2009 with the negative prognoses for the development of tourism
in Dresden and the as yet unforeseeable consequences of the global
economic crisis will confront the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden with new challenges.
Visitor numbers in Dresden, 2008 Visitor numbers at exhibitions abroad, 2008
1,966,909
St-Petersburg
64,678
Madrid
118,117
Exhibitions
abroad
400,194
Los Angeles
35,399
Special exhibitions abroad: see pages 34/35
Total visitor numbers, 2008
400,194
Bejing
160,000
Kiev
22,000
2,367,103
Exhibitions
in Dresden
1,966,909