Design museum

A design museum is a museum with a focus on product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. Many design museums were founded as museums for applied arts or decorative arts and started only in the late 20th century to collect design.

The first museum of this kind was the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In Germany the first museum of decorative arts was the Deutsches-Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin (now Kunstgewerbemuseum), founded in 1868 in Berlin. ^[1]

in 2010 opened the Design Museum Holon, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Also some museums of contemporary or modern art have important design collections, like the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. A special concept has been realised in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, in which four independent museums cooperate, one of them being Die Neue Sammlung - the largest design museum in the world.

Today corporate museums like the Vitra Design Museum, Museo Alessi or Museo Kartell play an important role.

List of design museums

Chicago Design Museum, Chicago
Design Museum India, India
Bauhaus Archive, Berlin
Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Design museum, Gent, Belgium
Design Museum, London.
Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen
Die Neue Sammlung, Germany
Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts, Germany
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Museum of Applied Arts (Belgrade), Serbia
Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), Hungary
Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Germany
Museum für angewandte Kunst (Cologne), Germany
Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Red Dot Design Museum, Singapore
SONS Museum, a museum dedicated to shoe design, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Singapore City Gallery, Singapore
Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts Saint Petersburg, Russia
Triennale (Milan), Italy
21 21 Design Sight Tokyo, Japan
Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura Mexico City, Mexico
Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada

References

^ Dimaki, Angeliki; Dimakis, Christos E. (May 2006). "From a physical design museum towards a virtual design museum: Or how museology, new technologies and design meet" (PDF). 5th Nordcode Seminar and Workshop, Oslo, May 10–12, 2006. Nordcode. Retrieved 2008-06-10. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

External links

[1] Dimaki, Angeliki; Dimakis, Christos E. (May 2006). "From a physical design museum towards a virtual design museum: Or how museology, new technologies and design meet" (PDF). 5th Nordcode Seminar and Workshop, Oslo, May 10–12, 2006. Nordcode. Retrieved 2008-06-10. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)

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