Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Art museum in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

The Bauhaus Dessau is a modernist building with clean lines, large glass surfaces, and functional design that reflects the school's own teachings in its architecture. Inside, the space displays furniture, ceramics, photographs, and works by artists who taught or studied here.

The school emerged in the 1920s as a response to joining artistic craft with industry and became the most influential art school of the modern era. After its closure in 1933, the building was eventually restored and the foundation was established in 1994 to preserve its legacy.

The name reflects the influential design school that operated on this site and shaped generations of artists and craftspeople. Visitors experience the spaces where students created furniture, textiles, and graphics that transformed 20th-century design.

The Bauhaus Building can be visited on guided tours, with around 5,000 tours a year, and roughly 100,000 visitors come annually. The permanent exhibition is in the basement, and the Studio Building, the "Prellerhaus", serves as a dormitory-style hotel with studio apartments once lived in by Josef Albers, Marcel Breuer and Gunta Stölzl.

The foundation's collection, the second-largest Bauhaus collection in the world, holds around 49,000 objects focused on the Dessau period of 1925 to 1932. Part of it is shown in a permanent exhibition in the basement of the Bauhaus Building. The archive keeps graphics, sculptures, paintings, drawings, photos, furniture and teaching materials.