Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Modernist design museum in Dessau, Germany.
The Bauhaus Museum Dessau is a glass and concrete building that houses the collection related to the Bauhaus design movement. Two exhibition floors display about 49,000 objects including furniture, artwork, and graphic designs.
The Bauhaus school was founded in 1919 and became a center for new design ideas in Germany. The museum itself opened in 2019 to mark the hundredth anniversary and preserve the story of this influential institution.
The place displays works by artists like Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy who taught there and shaped design thinking through their teaching. Visitors see how these creators reimagined furniture, posters, and everyday objects with fresh approaches.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 and features rotating exhibitions on the ground floor. It is worth allowing at least two hours to explore the collection at a comfortable pace.
The collection includes original drawings and construction plans by Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Carl Fieger that show how modernists built at that time. These documents give visitors a rare look at the working methods of the Bauhaus founders.
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