The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

Founded in 1946/ 1947, the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History) (ZI) is the only non-university art history research institute in Germany. The institute, which is located in the middle of Munich's Kunstareal on Königsplatz, is housed in the former NSDAP administration building, where the American military government set up a Central Collecting Point in 1945 for the restitution of art expropriated by the Nazi regime.

The ZI is a central service institution with one of the world's most important and largest art historical libraries, its digital photograph library's collections, numerous online websites and databases and a packed programme of public academic events, offering an excellent research environment for art historical research. Research at the ZI focuses on the following areas: object and materiality, art history as knowledge and science, art in the historical and political arena and global context. The "Studienzentrum zur Kunst der Moderne und Gegenwart" offers a superbly equipped research platform for studies on 20th and 21st century art and art history. The ZI awards several prizes for young researchers and offers an extensive scholarship programme.

Since 1979, the ZI has been solely sponsored by the Free State of Bavaria and is an institution under the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts.

• The objects of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte available in bavarikon

Collections owned by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte available in bavarikon

• Catalogues of art exhibitions in the Munich Glaspalast 1869-1931