MUSEUM DER DINGE

Check out the Museum der Dinge "Since the 1979s the WBA-MDD [has been] collecting objects with design-historic significance as well as archive material and objects to document modern everyday life characterized by commodity culture. Presently the museum has a relevant collection of about 25.000 objects.

At a former factory building the museum presents itself in the fashion of an open depot, offering to its visitors an area of more than 500 m² to explore directly the museums practise in dealing with the collections. The objects are combined in model collections, illustrating for one thing the basics of Werkbund aims, for another thing common aspects of the material, functional, formal and utilitarian history of the things in the 20th century and contemporary product culture. The exhibits are contrasted in combinations full of potential: objects of well-known designers and anonymous creations, functional, puristic objects and so called “taste aberrations” or “Kitsch”, substantial “honest” objects and surrogate materials, trademark and no-name products."

This exhibition I would like to see in November:

"In 1957, Hirche’s furniture was found in many apartments in Berlin’s Hansaviertel development as part of the Interbau building exhibition. His unpretentious works were also shown at the Milan Triennale, the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels and the 1964 Documenta, exemplifying the new West German product culture propagated by the Deutsche Werkbund. These objects went abroad as the ambassadors of a young, democratic, better Germany. After 1945, the Werkbund was chiefly concerned with the reconstruction of cities destroyed by war, the establishment of a contemporary residential style, and the quality of industrial mass production, which was now becoming ubiquitous."

Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge
Oranienstraße 25
D-10999 Berlin