Research at the museum combines collection-related questions with a larger scientific discourse. Research at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden uses a variety of scientific methods and approaches and works in an interdisciplinary manner, above all through cooperation with universities, research institutes and museums in Germany and abroad.
In 2020, the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett received of one of the largest and most important privately own groups of drawings by Joseph Beuys with the long term loan of 173 Beuys paper works from the Aeneas Bastian collection.
