Bauhaus-Archiv – Museum for Design

The futuristic appearing building of the Bauhaus-Archiv is a real landmark in the urban landscape of Berlin. Combining two houses and a bridge on which you can walk “over” the house makes the museum a special playground of architecture. Planned by the Bauhaus founder Martin Gropius (see the Martin Gropius article) in 1964 and built up in 1976-79 in a modified version the white building is a hidden eye-catcher on the bank of the Landwehrkanal.

The Archive/Museum attends to research and retrospection of Bauhaus architecture, art and design in the 20th century. It is the worldwide biggest collection of originals of the classical modernity. In a permanent exhibition which will be showed in December again, you can only see a part of the collection but the most interesting Bauhaus examples of architecture, furniture, ceramics, metal, photographs as well as artworks of the famous Bauhaus teachers Gropius, Itten, Klee, Feininger, Kandinsky, Albers, Schlemmer, Moholy-Nagy and van der Rohe.

At the moment you can see two special exhibitions. “Bauhäusler mit der Kamera” shows photographs of Bauhaus students, which were taken inside the Bauhaus. “Vorzeigeobjekte” shows montages, furniture and modells from the Bauhaus archive collection. This will give you a foretaste of the permant exhibition which will be back in the museum in December, after the renovation of the building will be finished.

For a deposit of € 10.00 you can rent an audio guide that explains the samples in your language.

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Bauhaus-Archiv | Art & culture | Entry fee +/- € 6.00
Klingelhöfer Straße 14 | Tiergarten | +49302540020
Wed – Mon 10:00 – 17:00