A portal to historical documents and provenance research projects at The Met, across the United States, and abroad.

The study of provenance is a traditional part of art historical research, as an object's chain of ownership can inform a scholarly understanding of the work ...

Provenance is an important issue for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, with our comprehensive collection of more than 20,000 objects from around the globe, most of ...

Researching the ownership of an artwork, and how and where it changed hands can help museums illuminate objects, artists, and cultures, and enable a museum to ...

The Museum scrutinizes the provenance of every work that enters the collection. ... The Museum welcomes additional information and invites inquiries at provenance ...

This page gives information about NCMA provenance standards, brief descriptions of provenance research and issues specific to different museum collections, ...