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 building stands at the edge of the Stadtpark, with the entrance recessed at ground level on the left of the glass facade. Inside, the lower atrium floor holds temporary exhibitions and the upper floor the permanent collection, so plan the visit around both levels.
The building resulted from an international competition in 2015: 831 entries were submitted and the jury awarded two first prizes, to addenda architects of Barcelona and Young & Ayata of New York. The Barcelona design was chosen for construction, and the foundation stone was laid on 4 December 2016.
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