In recent years, an in-depth examination of the Antiquities Collection's historical repositories and the associated "société des antiquités" (society of antiquaries) archive material has resulted in extensive findings with regard to the Antiquities Collection under Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. It has been possible to reconstruct the initial presentation in the Museum Fridericianum, which opened in 1779. Besides this, numerous exhibits (objects and drawings/photos) were found that were previously believed to be lost.

The research currently focuses on the journeys to Italy made by the landgraves Charles I and Frederick II, the scientific correspondence of the "société des antiquités" and also the more recent history of the Museum Fridericianum and the Antiquities Collection.

Some of this work has been published in the MHK annual yearbook since 2010, in the anthology "Auf dem Weg zum Museum. Sammlung und Präsentation antiker Kunst an deutschen Fürstenhöfen des 18. Jahrhunderts" (2016) and in several essays. The special exhibition "Journey to Mount Vesuvius" (2022), which was also accompanied by a publication, was dedicated to the architect Simon Louis du Ry's journey to Rome and Naples/Herculaneum between 1753 – 1756.