Design Museum Brussels, Design museum near Atomium, Brussels, Belgium
Design Museum Brussels is a design museum located next to the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium, displaying objects from the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection covers furniture, electronics, packaging, and everyday products, with a dedicated section on Belgian designers.
The museum was born in 2015 when the Atomium took in a private collection and opened it to the public within its venue. In 2020, it took on its current name to better reflect its focus on design objects.
The collection shows how plastic reshaped everyday objects from the 1950s onward, from furniture to packaging and kitchen tools. Walking through the rooms, you can trace how shapes and colors shifted from one decade to the next.
The museum sits right next to the Atomium and is easy to reach by public transport. Checking opening times before you go is a good idea, and weekdays tend to be less busy than weekends.
The Plasticarium, the plastic design collection, occupies about half of the museum's 5,000 m²; the rest is given to temporary exhibitions. Only around 450 of Philippe Decelle's roughly 2,000 pieces are on show at a time, rotated according to the exhibition programme. Decelle began collecting in 1987 after finding a discarded Joe Colombo chair.
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