Design museum

Not to be confused with 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.

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 designmuseum of the world.

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

See also

• Design Museum A design museum in London.

References

1. ^ Dimaki, Angeliki; Dimakis, Christos E. (2006 May). "From a physical design museum towards a virtual design museum: Or how museology, new technologies and design meet". 5th Nordcode Seminar and Workshop, Oslo, May 10–12, 2006. Nordcode. http://nordcode.tkk.fi/oslopapers/Angeliki_Dimaki.pdf. Retrieved 2008-06-10. 

External links

• "design museums blog" with informations on design museums
• Map of design museums around the world