Design museum
The term design museum refers to a museum that primarily collects industrial design , product design , graphic design and modern applied arts and shows exhibitions about them. Architecture , interior design and fashion can also be thematically covered. All objects of daily use from kitchen equipment and furniture to vehicle design can play a role as a collection item and exhibit in terms of their design aspect.
Many design museums originally specialized in handicrafts or applied arts and still have significant holdings in this area today. With the Neue Sammlung (The International Design Museum Munich) and its three buildings, there is an institution in Germany that, alongside the MoMA in New York, can be viewed as a leader, given the size and importance of the museum's holdings, the frequency of exhibitions and the international nature of the activities takes as a basis.
The number of museums with design departments is particularly high in German-speaking countries, but most of them are museums for arts and crafts with large historical collections from the Middle Ages to around 1900, and in more recent times - often only since the 1980s - with small departments for design were added. The first founding of such a museum took place in 1868 with the Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseum , although by today's standards it can only be regarded as a design museum to a limited extent. An example of a special design museum is the model house of the Ernst May Society , where design from Frankfurt 1925–32 is shown in its original context.
Well-known design museums
- Design Museum London , London
- The New Collection , Munich
- red dot design museum , Essen
- Rhode Island School of Design Museum , Providence
- Röhsska museet, Gothenburg
- Vitra Design Museum , Weil am Rhein
- MARTa Herford
- Museu do Design e da Moda , Lisbon, Portugal
- Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum , New York, NY
- Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge , Berlin
- European Flacon Glass Museum on Rennsteig, Kleintettau