Bredekamp criticises the idea, associated with , that "Bildwissenschaft" might be constructed by amassing the pre-existing insights of various disciplines, arguing that a new science cannot be straightforwardly established through the adding together of existing disciplines. Against Sachs-Hombach's argument that art history is one of many disciplines on which "Bildwissenschaft" should draw, and Hans Belting's argument that art history is outdated or obsolescent, Bredekamp argues that (Austro-German) art history has always contained an incipiently universal orientation and a focus on non-art images. In June 2012, he successfully supported the funding application of the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary laboratory. at the Humboldt University in the second phase of the German Universities Excellence Initiative. In the spring of 2015, he was appointed, next to the British museum director Neil MacGregor (director) and the archaeologist Hermann Parzinger, founding director of the future Humboldt Forum in the walls of the reconstructed Berliner Stadtschloss. In 2007 appeared Horst Bredekamp's in German newspapers much celebrated monograph ""Galilei der Künstler"" (""Galilei the artist"", see below) which was based on a sensational discovery of an edition of Galileo's "Sidereus Nuncius" including unknown Galileo attributed ink drawings. After a thorough inspection including material technical studies this issue was found to be genuine by Horst Bredekamp et al. In 2012, the historian Nick Wilding discovered, that this proved copy was a complete forgery which had been brought by the Italian antiquarian Marino Massimo De Caro in the U.S. antique trade. Bredekamp is a member of the board of the Schering Foundation and member of Foundation for Sports History Museums. Monographs:  As editor(selection):