  I give an overview on experimental studies of the spectrum and the structure
of the excited states of the nucleon and what we can learn about their internal
structure. One focus is on the efforts to obtain a more complete picture of the
light-quark baryon excitation spectrum employing electromagnetic beams that
will allow us to draw some conclusions on the symmetries underlying the
spectrum. For the higher mass excitations, the full employment of coupled
channel approaches is essential when searching for new excited states in the
large amounts of data already accumulated in different channels involving a
variety of polarization observables. The other focus is on the study of
transition form factors and helicity amplitudes and their dependences on $Q^2$,
especially on some of the more prominent resonances, especially
$\Delta(1232)\frac{3}{2}^+$, $N(1440)\frac{1}{2}^+$, and negative parity states
$N(1535)\frac{1}{2}^-$, and $N(1675)\frac{5}{2}^-$. These were obtained in pion
and eta electroproduction experiments off proton targets and have already led
to further insights in the active degrees-of-freedom as a function of the
distance scale involved.
