Vitra Design Museum + Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*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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Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today
17.03. – 09.09.2018Vitra Design Museum
Christien Meindertsma:Beyond the Surface
18.08.18 – 20.01.19Vitra Design Museum Gallery
Ron Arad: Yes to the Uncommon!
08.06. – 14.10.2018Vitra Schaudepot
The Vitra Design Museum Collection – 1800 to the Present
Permanent ExhibitionVitra Schaudepot
Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine
27.05. - 04.11.2018Gewerbemuseum WintherthurSwitzerland
The Bauhaus #itsalldesign
19.09.2018 – 06.01.2019mudac, LausanneSwitzerland
Making Africa
14.10.2018 – 06.01.2019Blanton Museum of ArtAustin, TX, USA
Together! The New Architecture of the Collective
29.11.2018 – 17.03.2019GRASSI Museum, LeipzigGermany
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 pmFocus Tour: EamesMaterials and Design ProcessesEvery Friday, 2 pmBehind the ScenesEvery first Friday of the month,3 pm (in German)
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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Nightclubs and discothèques are hotbeds of contemporary culture. Since the 20th century, they have been centres of the avant-garde that question the established codes of social life and experiment with different realities, merging interior and furniture design, graphics and art with sound, light, fashion and special effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk. »Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today« is the first exhibition to give a comprehensive overview of the design history of the nightclub, examining its cultural context. Examples range from Italian clubs of the 1960s created by the protagonists of Radical Design to the legendary Studio 54 where Andy Warhol was a regular, from the Palladium in New York designed by Arata Isozaki to more recent concepts by the OMA architecture studio for the Ministry of Sound in London. Featuring films and vintage photographs, posters, flyers and fashion, the exhibition incorporates music, light and spatial installations to take visitors on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour and subcultures – always in search of the night that never ends.
How do you reactivate abandoned spaces in an urban environment? How do you tell the story of a locale and start something new in the process? Akoaki is a design and architecture studio founded in Detroit by Anya Sirota and Jean Louis Farges. The duo casts a critical eye on the social, spatial, and material realities of urban spaces – culminating in architectural interventions such as »The Mothership«, a mobile DJ booth cum art object. In her talk, Anya Sirota presents several of the duo's works, and reports on the historical background of urban development in Detroit, the birthplace of Motown and techno music. Free admission
Discover the «24 Stops» along the Rehberger-Weg on one of our guided walks in German and find out more about the artist, the individual objects and the landscape in which they are set. Start: 2pm, alternately from the Fondation Beyeler or Vitra Campus, duration: 2 hours, price: CHF 10.- / EUR 10.- per person. The price includes a shuttle bus back to the starting point. Our guided walks take place whatever the weather. More information
The furnishings on display in the Schaudepot are made from a diverse range of materials. Some are made of wood or metal, while others are manufactured from old clothing or 3D-printed plastics. As materials detectives, we investigate selected objects and experiment with various materials. For children aged 6 to 12, € 7.00 per child, registration: info@design-museum.de
The development of the synthesiser played a fundamental role in the emergence of electronic dance music – and hence club culture. After being introduced in the 1970s, the synthesiser made it possible to produce songs and tracks without any acoustic instruments. The Synthesiser Lab presents a selection of vintage synthesisers in the Buckminster Fuller Dome, where visitors can experiment with the different models. The Dome will be transformed into a laboratory of sound – from techno and house to ethereal tones … anything goes! Free admission
€ 85.00 per person, registration at info(at)design-museum.de
Ron Arad counts among the most influential and experimental designers of our time. Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum in London and a highly regarded expert on Arad, has produced a number of publications about his work. In a discussion with Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum, Sudjic talks about Ron Arad’s work, his most important designs, and his significance for design history. Free admission
To explore more deeply the wealth and variety of the «24 Stops» along the Rehberger-Weg and their surroundings, we are offering a series of themed tours led by experts in German. Start: 4pm, alternately from the Fondation Beyeler or Vitra Campus, duration: 2 hours, price: CHF 10.- / EUR 10.- per person. The price includes a shuttle bus back to the starting point. Our Expert Tours take place whatever the weather.
Together we shall walk along the Rehberger-Weg, past gardens, fruit crops and orchards, across the vine-clad slopes of Tüllinger Berg, and through part of the historic heart of the old village of Weil. As well as magnificent views of Basel, the Jura, the Vosges and Weil am Rhein, enjoy fascinating insights into the history of this border triangle, where Switzerland, Germany and France meet.More information