Research
The Belvedere Research Center is dedicated to documenting, indexing, and studying Austrian art in an international context—from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Research Center includes a specialist library, various archives, and online databases that are aligned to the profile of the museum’s collection. In addition to the scholarly processing of key source documents, national art history is inscribed in an increasingly global knowledge landscape through collaborative research projects, conferences, and publications. A central consideration is to enable free, open, and linked access to digitized cultural heritage. Since 2018, the Belvedere has been committed to an Open Content Policy for images of the collection’s artworks that are not subject to copyright. These images can be downloaded in print quality free of charge. Visitors to the Research Center benefit both from the wealth of resources and online databases relating to Austrian art history as well as from the expertise of its staff from the Library, Archive & Provenance Research, Catalogues Raisonnés, Online Collection, Image Archive, and Ursula Blickle Video Archive.
