BERLIN, GERMAY.- The Kennedy collection of the Camera Work Gallery surely is one of the worldwide most comprehensive composition of photographic work, official documents, private documents and memorabilia from the Kennedy family. In 2004, its worldwide first presentation took place in the rooms of the Berlin Camera Work gallery at 149 Kantstrasse. The extensive response in the media and the impressive confirmation by the international stream of visitors as well as the interest of the people living in Berlin resulted in the desire of an appreciable photographic exhibition which followed on the Rome mayor's request.

The newly re-elected mayon Veltroni, who published articles about the Kennedys and has been closely connected to them supported the "Kennedys exhibition organized by Camera Work and DRAGO Arts in the Hadrian temple in the ancient centre of Rome in April 2005. There, Camera Work showed 700 photographs, selected exhibits from the original property of the family – such as JFK's black suitcase from Hermes, his leathern trunk, his personal stamp – and original documents from his private and professional sphere.

The opening of the Rome exhibition in which, in addition to the Roman mayor and other notables of the city, Kerry Kennedy and other members of the family as well as the American ambassador to Rome, Mel Sembler, took part was followed by much interest of the media and the public, resulting in a magnificent stream of visitors which persisted until the last day of the exhibition and even exceeded the large number of visitors to the Berlin exhibition.

Based on the experience made in Rome and Berlin, in particular on the enormous host of visitors over the limits of generations, Camera Work cooperated with a professor of American history of the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University of Berlin to develop a comprehensive museum exhibition from the rich resources of photographs, official and private documents and numerous memorabilia.

The establishment of "The Kennedys" museum at the Pariser Platz near the Brandenburg Gate caused the German history of the Kennedys to return to the place which is a historical and political fixed point of special global importance for a lot of people. The exhibition supplemented by medial and didactic components is intended to make young and old people familiar with the Kennedys' life, their belief in democracy and human rights, peace by prosperity and progress, their will to improve the way of life of all and the paramount position of a still influential family in American history and their way to that, and is intended to prompt them to think.