AUSTRIA - The MAK is a hub of emerging global communication. Thus, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles1 and the Artists and Architects-in-Residence program at the Mackey Apartments are central to an intense discourse on the interweaving of contemporary themes in art and architecture.
BELGIUM - The Design museum Gent is a cultural institution of the City of Gent. Since January 1999 the museum has been recognized by the Ministry of the Flemish Community in the highest category. The accent in the collections and exhibitions lies on 20th century and actual design.
BRAZIL - The Brazilian House Museum (MCB), a privileged location with easy access in the city of São Paulo, seeks to be provocative, stimulating new generations to the contemporary issues and at the same time preserving the memory and all the sobriety that history requires.
CANADA - A Canadian design museum and centre for design research and education. It is committed to raising awareness and understanding of design in all its forms.
CROATIA - Museum of Contemporary Art is the present-day name for Zagreb Municipal Galleries, which formerly consisted of Contemporary Art Gallery, Centre for Photography, Film, and Television, Benko Horvat Collection, Library, and Documentation Department. Prior to its separation, the institution also included Atelier Meštrović (today's Meštrović Foundation), Primitive Art Gallery (Croatian Museum of Naive Art), and "Jozo Kljaković" Collection (now managed by Centre for Visual Art Education).
CZECH REPUBLIC - The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague collects and preserves for future generations - in both national and international contexts - examples of historical and contemporary crafts, as well as applied arts and design. We believe in harmony between function, quality and beauty; our ambition is to inspire, educate and entertain in a unique way.
CZECH REPUBLIC - The National Gallery collects, records, maintains (on a permanent basis), professionally processes and makes publicly accessible, art works of painting, sculpture and graphic art, as well as works from the genre of, what is known as, “new media” of both home and foreign origin and professionally researches them.
CZECH REPUBLIC - The National Technical Museum has a status of the central museum of the Czech Republic and the scientific institution with the documentation, presentation, methodological, and information functions. The basis of its activities are the collections that have been created as the nation's memory.
DENMARK - The vision for the future of Brandts as Denmark's international centre of photography, art and media is that of a cultural institution functioning on three levels: creating debate, breaking boundaries, and stimulating new developments.
DENMARK - The Danish Design Centre is Denmark's professional knowledge centre for design and innovation. Their main task is to carry out design and innovation activities aimed at Danish businesses with the purpose of improving their competitiveness.
DENMARK - The Danish museum of art and design is a contemporary museum for Danish and international crafts and design.
ESTONIA - Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (ETDM) collection consists of examples of contemporary Estonian applied art as well as of design
prototypes and products. The collection includes works of
textile art, ceramics, porcelain, leather, glass, jewellery, metalwork, furniture and product design. There is also a rare collection of photographs, negatives and slides; a small
specialist library and an archival collection.
FINLAND - Designmuseo is a specialist museum in Finland that selects and maintains a design collection. The museum is responsible for research and documentation in its field, and for holding exhibitions on design history and contemporary products. Designmuseo was founded in 1873 as a study collection for the arts and crafts school.
FINLAND - The Finnish Glass Museum presents the history of glass dating back over 4,000 years and the 300-year history of Finland's glass industry. The collections consist mostly of Finnish household, design and art glass from the 18th-21th centuries.
FINLAND - Only 1-1/2 hours outside of Helsinki is The iittala Glass Center, the center of iittala glass designs. Here you will find the timeless Aalto Vase being produced along with other signature glass iittala pieces.
GERMANY - The Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe is a major museum for cultural, art and regional history in the Baden region of Baden-Württemberg. They state that they are a universal museum in which history, art and everyday life throughout the ages are brought together to provide a comprehensive cultural historical synopsis.
GERMANY - The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin Is the most complete existing collection concerned with the research and presentation of the history and impact of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), the most important school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century.
GERMANY - The Collection of the DAM comprises some 200,000 architectural plans, drawings and sketches, 1240 models as well as pictures and items of furniture. Since 1989 this Collection is established in Frankfurt, Hedderichstrasse, not far from the museum.
GERMANY - The Werkbund Archiv - Museum of Affairs is a museum of cultural product of the 20th and 21st century, influenced by a material culture, industrial materials and goods production. The core of the institution is the archive of the German Werkbund, an association founded in 1907 by artists, industrialists, politicians and culturalists, as part of the utopian cultural trends at the beginning of the 20th Century reform.
GERMANY - With its more than 1,500 exhibits on an area of more than 4,000 square metres the red dot design museum in Germany is the largest exhibition of contemporary design worldwide.
SINGAPORE - In November 2005, a second red dot design museum opened in Singapore. Located in the creative centre of Singapore at the the red dot Traffic, the red dot museum is a main attraction.
GERMANY - The Vitra Design Museum is internationally active as a cultural institution that has made a major contribution to the research and popular dissemination of design. The Museum presents a broad spectrum of topics on design and culture, with a special emphasis on furniture and interior design. Its activities encompass the production of exhibitions, workshops, publications, and museum products, and the maintenance of an extensive collection, an archive, and a research library.
ISRAEL - The primary goals of Design Museum Holon are to inspire and challenge the design community and the general public's perception of design and the way it affects their lives.
SWEDEN - Opened in 1916, the Röhsska Museum of Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts displays short-term exhibitions for those interested in shape, colour and function.
UNITED KINGDOM - The Design Museum is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary design. Since its foundation in 1989, the museum has won international acclaim for exhibitions on modern design history and contemporary design, for Designer of the Year - the UK's pre-eminent design prize - and for championing new design talent.
UNITED KINGDOM - The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace. Today the Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions.
UNITED KINGDOM - The purpose of the Victoria and Albert Museum is to enable everyone to enjoy its collections and explore the cultures that created them; and to inspire those who shape contemporary design.
UNITED STATES - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.
UNITED STATES - The Museum of Arts and Design collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. The Museum celebrates the creative process through which materials are crafted into works that enhance contemporary life.
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