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Design Museums
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design 
 From 1919-1933, the Bauhaus was a driving force in the synthesis of technology with architecture, design, and art. The heart of the website for the Bauhaus Archive/Museum, in Berlin, is "Bauhaus 1919-1933," an illustrated chronicle and analysis of this major movement. Key resources include the Manifesto, a Chronology, and profiles of major figures, such as Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Mies van der Rohe. http://www.bauhaus.de/english/bauhausarchiv/ Topics: Architecture, Museums, Nonfiction by Genre, Schools of Art Last updated Sep 11, 2007 Cranbrook Art Museum
This is "a contemporary art museum located at the heart of Cranbrook Educational Community [in Michigan], one of the nation's greatest architectural complexes." The site features information about current exhibits and selected images from the permanent collection. It also provides a virtual tour of Saarinen House, "the home and studio designed by Eliel Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and Cranbrook's resident architect from 1925 to 1950." http://www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place: United States, Schools of Art Last updated Oct 26, 2005 Design Museum
This London museum focuses on industrial design, architecture, design movements, and design-related technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries. The site features browsable information about significant designers, from Alvar Aalto through Michael Young. The "Digital Design Museum" provides a description of "what web designers choose as the most inspiring developments of design on the web." http://www.designmuseum.org/ Topics: Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Oct 13, 2003 Geffrye Museum
This London museum "shows the changing style of the English domestic interior in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day." The site features virtual tours of interiors and the garden, information about special exhibits, and activities for children (such as designing Tudor, Victorian, and modern rooms). http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk Topics: Arts and Humanities, Home & Housing, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jul 25, 2005 The IDE Virtual Design Museum
Images of objects from well-known designers, such as Eileen Gray, Jacob Jensen, Raymond Loewy, Phillipe Starck, and others. Also includes designs for items from companies such as Apple, Braun, Olivetti, Sony, and Wega and selected company brochures. A 3-D view is available for a few objects. Not searchable. From the Faculty of Industrial Design at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/ Topics: Art, Industries, Museums Last updated May 19, 2004 Museum of Arts & Design
Official website for this New York museum, formerly the American Craft Museum, that "collects, displays, and interprets objects in ceramic, glass, fiber, metal and wood that honor innovation in art, craft and design." The site features images of selected works from the permanent collection and from exhibitions. Includes teacher resource packets for selected exhibits, such as for "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting" and "Contemporary Netsuke: Masterful Miniatures." http://www.madmuseum.org Topics: Crafts, Museums, Museums by Place: United States Last updated Jun 4, 2007 Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA)
This interior design museum, part of Middlesex University in Britain, offers exhibitions that "give a vivid picture of domestic life in the first half of the twentieth century while also looking at contemporary design, art and issues related to the domestic environment." The site features a description and online catalog of the collection (use the "light box" to access records with selected images), information about exhibits, online teaching resources, and links to related sites. http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk Topics: Home & Housing, Home & Housing, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jul 25, 2005 San Francisco Design Museum
The mission of this nonprofit museum is to educate "the general public about the value of design in their everyday lives." The museum focuses on 21st century design in areas such as advertising, architecture, fashion, film, furniture, industrial and product design, and illustration. The site includes photographs from the inaugural exhibit in 2003 and links to some of the designs. http://www.meandra.org/ Topics: Museums Last updated Oct 13, 2003 Victoria and Albert Museum: Search the Collections
"You may search here for over 30,000 works and over 50,000 images from the V&A collections. The database covers a wide range of objects, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles." There is no browsing feature, but if you leave the "search" form empty all of the images will come up in thumbnail form. From the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London. http://collections.vam.ac.uk// Topics: Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jan 19, 2009 Vitra Design Museum
This German museum "investigates the history and current developments of industrial design." The site features information about traveling exhibits on designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and Marcel Breuer. (Click the download button to view brochures.) Also includes images of the museum building designed by California architect Frank O. Gehry. In English, German, and French. http://www.design-museum.de/ Topics: Museums Last updated Aug 3, 2004 |
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