Category Archives: Design and Museums Issues
Cold War Modern Design 1945-70
The lost identity of an exhibition?
La Guerra Fredda - Cold War. Arte e design in un mondo diviso. 1945-1970
Mart (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto)
Rovereto, 28 March to 26 July 2009
(Cold War Modern. Design 1945-1970, Victoria & Albert Museum
London, 25 September 2008 to 11 January 2009)
review by Maddalena Dalla Mura and Gabriele Toneguzzi
After being on show [...]
Multiple voices
Vienna, MAK
Discourses and voices on design are multiplying. Museums are no exceptions.
Consider for instance one European capital city like Vienna, where the MAK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst is acknowledged and renowned as a museum of design, but where other institutions – the Design Forum at Museum Quartier, the Möbel Museum, the Wien Museum and the [...]
Design and Museums Issues #1
What is a museum of design? What defines a museum of design, what distinguishes it from other kinds of museums? How do design museums mean “design”, which fields or objects are they concerned about with their policies and practices of acquisition, research and exhibition? Which cultural value do they attach to design? What approaches do [...]
