The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) are a museum complex with an international profile, comprising altogether fifteen museums.

The museums show their treasures at their different locations, some housed in world-renowned, painstakingly reconstructed historical buildings: They are the Green Vault, the Cabinet of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, the Coin Cabinet and the Armoury in Dresden’s Royal Palace; the Porcelain Collection, the Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments and the Old Masters Picture Gallery in the Semper Building at the Zwinger; the Sculpture Collection with exhibitions in the Semper Building at the Zwinger and at the Albertinum, as a part of the presentation of Romantic to contemporary art; the Saxon Folk Art Museum with Puppet Theatre Collection in the Jägerhof; the Museum of Decorative Arts in Pillnitz and last but not least the GRASSI Ethnographical Museum in Leipzig, the Ethnographical Museum Dresden and the Ethnographical Museum in Herrnhut. In 2016, art collector Egidio Marzona donated the Archiv der Avantgarden, an archive of 20th-century avant-garde art, to the SKD. Dresden’s Art Library, the Art Fund, the Gerhard Richter Archive and the Saxon State Office for Museum Affairs form further parts of the museum network.

The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden are governed by an Executive Board. This board consists of the Director of the SKD, the Director of Finance, and up to three Deputy Directors appointed by the Director of the SKD. The Board of Trustees advises and oversees the work of the Executive Board. The Board of Trustees consists of twelve members, who are appointed and dismissed by the Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst. The board is made up of representatives from Saxony’s executive civil administration; individuals from the fields of culture, science, and commerce; and an employees’ representative. The Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst also appoints the members of the Scholarly Advisory Council to four-year terms. This body advises the SKD regarding fundamental scholarly issues.

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