Documents and publications on exhibits and events, as well as newspaper articles and so much more, are a testament of the eventful history of the Museum.
Among the archive’s focus areas are the partial and fractional estate of former, anthropologists, travelers and staff members such as Otto Finsch, Franz Heger, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Robert Unterwelz, Wanda Hanke, and Etta Becker-Donner. Some of this material has already been researched and published, while the scientific registration of these documentary estates continues.
Further information about individual collections can be found in the relevant collector records, as well as the administrative record collections.