The Krone Collection (Krone-Sammlung) houses and preserves the donation of Hermann Krone (1827 - 1916) - photographer, scientist, university teacher, and writer. In 1907, Krone donated his Historical Didactic Museum of Photography (Historisches Lehrmuseum für Photographie) to the recently established Scientific-Photographic Institute of the Dresden Technical College (Wissenschaftlich - Photographisches Institut der Technischen Hochschule Dresden), today's Institute for Applied Photophysics, Dresden University of Technology (Institut für Angewandte Photophysik der TU Dresden).
The donation originally consisted of 141 Didactic Panels with approximately 1,100 photographs, twelve frames with Daguerreotypes, approx. 600 negatives, and an extensive book manuscript on the "Standard Photographic Methods" (Photographische Urmethoden). Apart from a small number of losses, this stock has been preserved into the present and has partly been extended by acquisitions. From today's point of view, it possesses not only source value as a witness to the technological and medial history of photography, but also as a singular didactical ensemble of the 19th century.
Since the mid-nineties, Krone's work has been explored on the basis of interdisciplinary criteria, secured from the standpoint of conservation, and presented to the public by a large exhibition.

Activity today in the Krone Collection (Krone-Sammlung)is dedicated to further research in the history of photography as a component of a general history of media, with special consideration of the work of Hermann Krone. Information on all known originals of Krone has been registered and is available in a special database in the Collection. The Collection belongs to the Institute for Applied Photophysics (Institut für Angewandte Photophysik); the specialist support is carried out through the custodianship (Kustodie) of the Dresden University of Technology.