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.

Not to be confused with Design Museum.

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]

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

References
  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. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  2. "Design Museum Dharavi". designmuseumdharavi.org. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  3. "Could This Virtual Museum Be the Way of the Future?". Architectural Digest. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  4. "Essen - Red Dot Design Museum".
  5. "Red Dot Design Museum Singapore | Design Exhibition | Gift Shop | Cafe". Red Dot Design Museum Singapore. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
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