Bauhaus-Archiv, Art museum and design archive in Tiergarten, Germany.
The Bauhaus Archive gathers papers, photographs, models, and works connected to the school for architecture and design. The collection sits in Tiergarten beside the Landwehr Canal and shows how teaching and practice looked.
Hans Maria Wingler founded the archive in 1960 in Darmstadt to preserve material about the school. The collection moved to Berlin in 1971, and the building by the canal opened in 1979 following Walter Gropius's 1964 plans.
The name refers to the school that reimagined architecture, art, and craft between 1919 and 1933. Visitors today see furniture, textiles, ceramics, and metalwork that show how everyday life and form belong together.
The main building at the Landwehrkanal is closed for renovation and extension work and is scheduled to reopen at the end of 2027. Until then, the collection is shown at a temporary site at Knesebeckstrasse 1 in Charlottenburg. The extension, designed by Staab Architekten, adds 6,700 square metres.
In 2005 the building served as an outdoor set for the films V for Vendetta and Æon Flux. Since 2014 the archive has used its own typeface, bayer next, named after the Bauhaus student and teacher Herbert Bayer and applied to the building and all publications.
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