Vitra Design Museum + Vitra Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*Vitra Schaudepot8,00 € / 6,00 €*Architecture tour 2h14,00 € / 10,00 €* Guided tours 1h (Exhibition tour, Production tour or Behind the Scenes)7,00 € / 5,00 €**Reduced prices: young people from age 12, students, seniors,disabled persons, groups of more than 10 people, combination of 3 and more tickets/person, children under 12 years of age free
Vitra Design MuseumCharles-Eames-Str. 2D-79576 Weil am RheinT +49.7621.702.3200F +49.7621.702.3590info@design-museum.de
Daily 10 am - 6 pm,24 December 10 am - 2 pm. The museum is open on Sundays and on all public holidays.
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Objects of Desire:Surrealism and Design
28.09.2019 – 19.01.2019Vitra Design Museum
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg:Better Nature
20.07.2019 - 24.11.2019Vitra Design Museum Gallery
Living in a Box: Design and Comics
24.05.2019 – 20.10.2019Vitra Schaudepot
The Vitra Design Museum Collection – 1800 to the Present
Permanent exhibitionVitra Schaudepot
Night Fever
07.06.2019 – 06.10.2019Centro PecciPrato, Italy
Hello, Robot
21.06.2019 – 29.09.2019Museo San TelmoSan Sebastián, Spain
The Bauhaus #itsalldesign
14.03.2019 – 01.12.2019Designmuseum DanmarkCopenhagen, Denmark
Alexander GirardA Designer's Universe
03.05.2019 – 27.10.2019 Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, USA
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The collection of the Vitra Design Museum ranks among the most important holdings of furniture design worldwide. It contains some 7000 pieces of furniture, a vast assemblage of lighting objects and numerous archives, as well as the Collection of the Eames Office, or the estates of Verner Panton and Alexander Girard. On 4 June 2016 the Vitra Schaudepot was opened, created by the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, in which the Vitra Design Museum presents key pieces of its collection.
Guided tours through the Vitra Schaudepot:Highlights from the CollectionEvery Saturday and Sunday,2 pmBehind the ScenesEvery first Friday of the month,3 pm (in German)Focus Tour: MaterialEvery third Friday of the month, 3 pm (in German)
Vitra Design Museum + Vitra Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*Vitra Schaudepot8,00 € / 6,00 €*Architecture tour 2h14,00 € / 10,00 €*Guided tours 1h (Exhibition tour, Production tour or Behind the Scenes)7,00 € / 5,00 €**Reduced prices: young people from age 12, students, seniors,disabled persons, groups of more than 10 people, combination of 3 and more tickets/person, children under 12 years of age free
Daily 10 am – 6 pm,24 December 10 am – 2 pm. The museum is open on Sundays and on all public holidays.
Vitra Design Museum Gallery
British artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (born in London in 1982) investigates the relationship between nature and the man-made, exploring how this interconnection changes through advances in design and technology. The resulting artworks tell evocative stories that are at once provocative and ironic. From 20 July to 24 November 2019, the Vitra Design Museum Gallery presents a solo exhibition tracing Ginsberg’s journey as an artist and critical designer. Trained in architecture and interaction design, she has been especially interested in the emerging technoscience of »synthetic biology« – the design of living matter. Within this context, Ginsberg has been intrigued by the premise that underpins all approaches to design: the desire to make things »better«. But what exactly does better mean? Better for whom? And who decides? These questions, which are crucial in times of radical technological and scientific advances, are the basis of »Better Nature«.
Opening: 19 July 2019, 6 pmMoreImage:Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg with Christina Agapakis of Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. and Sissel Tolaas, Resurrecting the Sublime (digital reconstruction of a lost landscape), 2019 © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Vitra Schaudepot
Pow! Bang! Ka-boom! With the exhibition »Living in a Box: Design and Comics« at the Vitra Schaudepot, the Vitra Design Museum is taking a fresh look at its collection by exploring the world of comics and their relationship to design. Iconic furniture features prominently in comics such as »The Adventures of Tintin«, »Peanuts« and »Diabolik«, while at the same time countless designers have taken inspiration from comics to create pieces informed by stories of superhuman strength, lightning speed and razor-sharp irony.
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Image: Angela and Luciana Giussani, Sergio Zaniboni and Saverio Micheloni, Diabolik (detail), 1974 © Astorina srl
At the Vitra Schaudepot, which is designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Vitra Design Museum presents key objects from its extensive collection, creating one of the largest permanent exhibitions and research sites on contemporary furniture design. Today the collection of the Vitra Design Museum encompasses a total of around 20 000 objects, with some 7000 pieces of furniture, more than 1000 lighting objects and numerous archives, as well as the Collection of the Eames Office, or the estates of Verner Panton and Alexander Girard. Although the main museum building by Frank Gehry (1989) was originally conceived to house the collection, the museum utilises the space to stage major temporary exhibitions. The construction of the Schaudepot allows for a permanent presentation of the collection, while offering a diverse educational programme.
Visitors can experience the Black Box exclusively as part of a public guided tour. Registration: info(at)design-museum.de, max. 10 participants.The Vitra Campus has a exhibition space: in one of the houses at the southern entrance, a Black Box has been installed which holds the collection of international toy robots belonging to Vitra Chairman Emeritus Rolf Fehlbaum. The presentation encompasses robots and figures of astronauts from the years 1937 to 1968. Many of them bear witness to the technological optimism of an age, when robotics and space travel were still largely fiction. Some of the selected objects are shown with the original packaging, which is often no less spectacular than the artefacts themselves. A number of the robots are seen in motion on video screens, while others are exhibited on turntable displays. The staging of the objects draws the viewer into a dark, minimalist dream world. The exhibition was conceived in collaboration with Fifo Stricker, Rolf Fehlbaum’s friend and fellow collector. Dieter Thiel designed the architecture of the Black Box, and the scenography was developed together with French designer Ronan Bouroullec.