The purpose of the research project is to use relevant and current humanistic perspectives to highlight and reflect on the basis on which the Röhsska Museum's collections were created. In order to increase awareness of the Röhsska Museum's collections and to place them in a larger context and inspire a critical approach to the collections, continuous research is required on the museum's intentions and the context in which the collections were created. The examination of one's own history takes place with the help of cultural history research by highlighting and analyzing when, by whom, in what way and on what grounds the Röhsska Museum's collections were created. It is also valuable to study how the collections have been viewed over time in order to make them understandable and useful today. Few of the museum's 50,000 objects are digitized. Most of the collections in the Röhsska Museum are therefore completely unknown to the outside world. For the digitization work, increased knowledge of the objects is needed. An important purpose of continued research on the Röhsska Museum's collections is to fill such a gap. In addition, all research at the museum contributes to enriching other museum activities with new perspectives and questions. Research results are continuously made available in articles, lectures, catalogs, publications, exhibitions, internal seminars, conferences and on the museum's website. Research on the Röhsska Museum's collections and the history of their creation also increases the opportunities for collaboration with universities and other institutions.