Designmuseum

The term referred to the Design Museum is a museum that collects mainly industrial design, product design, graphic design and contemporary applied art exhibitions and shows it. Thematically, also architecture, interior design and fashion can thereby be detected. All items of daily use of kitchen equipment and furniture to office or vehicle design can play a role as a collection object and exhibit in terms of their design aspect.

Many so-called design museums were originally specialized in crafts or applied arts, and today still of significant holdings in this area. With the new collection (The International Design Museum Munich ) and their three houses in Germany there is an institution which in New York can be viewed as a leader next to the MoMA, considering the size and importance of the Museum's collection, the exhibition frequency and internationality of activities takes as its basis.

The number of museums with design departments is particularly high in the German-speaking countries, but most of them are decorative arts museums with large historical collections from the Middle Ages to the early 1900's, which in recent times - often only since the 1980s - with small departments for design were added. The first establishment of such a museum took place in 1868 with the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts, although it is to be regarded by today's standards only conditionally as Design Museum.

Known design museums

• Design Museum London, London
• Die Neue Sammlung, Munich
• Red dot design museum, Essen
• Rhode Iceland School of Design Museum, Providence
• Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
• Museu do Design e da Moda, Lisbon, Portugal
• Smithsonian 's Cooper - Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY
• Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge, Berlin