Design museum
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Not to be confused with Design Museum.
A design museum is a museum with a focus on product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. Many design museums were found as museums of applied arts, an important role play today corporate design museums like the Vitra Design Museum.
Also some museums of contemporary or modern art have important design collections.
The first design museum was the Deutsches-Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin (now the Kunstgewerbemuseum) in 1827 in Berlin. [1]
[edit] See also
- Design Museum A design museum in London.
[edit] References
- ^ Dimaki, Angeliki; Dimakis, Christos E. (2006 May). From a physical design museum towards a virtual design museum: Or how museology, new technologies and design meet. 5th Nordcode Seminar and Workshop, Oslo, May 10-12, 2006. Nordcode. Retrieved on 2008-06-10.
