The coronavirus pandemic has also had an impact on the city museum's exhibition planning. To bridge the gap until the next major special exhibition, the sam therefore presented a few of its new acquisitions from 2019.

Collecting is one of the five core tasks of a museum alongside preserving, researching, presenting and communicating. After a scientific appraisal and selection, objects are donated or purchased by the museum. Here, the acquisitions complement the existing collections, bring them together or expand them. The objects are preserved and their former function and significance are researched. Works of art, everyday objects or tools explain and pass on to us current or past living environments.

The Wiesbaden City Museum Foundation has the task of acquiring realia relating to the history of Wiesbaden, Nassau and the Rhine-Main region. In 2019, the Stadtmuseum's collections received new InPut in the form of objects that are important for the city's urban, social and economic history.