Category Archives: Design Museums
Design Museums Statements #15
MAK, Vienna
«Design statement:
- Design is intervention, is change.
- Design raises questions. Design is goal-oriented action. Design sets things in motion.
- Design opens new spaces and perspectives.
- Design expands our perceptive faculties.
- Design is the source of and the grounds for a new reality and its possible imitation.
- Design allows us to partake in the archaic. For [...]
Design Museums Statements #14
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
«Since its origins in 1879 in the Sydney International Exhibition, the Powerhouse Museum has striven to be a museum of the people, providing a cultural storehouse for the products of art and industry that would instruct and inspire visitors from all walks of life. Design has been the unifying theme over the past 125 years, [...]
Design Museums Statements #13
Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris
«Les collections des Arts Décoratifs (musées et bibliothèque) figurent parmi les plus importantes de France et réunissent des milliers de pièces relevant des différents domaines des arts décoratifs et des arts appliqués. Ces collections s’enrichissent chaque année de très nombreux dons, achats et legs. [...] Les expositions consacrées aux créateurs d’aujourd’hui et les acquisitions d’œuvres [...]
Design Museums Statements #12
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
«Constituer un des secteurs de la collection du Musée national d’art moderne n’allait pas, bien sûr, sans quelques contraintes. Ne serait-ce qu’en regard des autres collections – peinture, sculpture, dessin, photographie, architecture –, dont le voisinage imposait une sélection extrêmement rigoureuse. La collection de design se devait en effet, par son originalité et ses spécificités, [...]
Design Museums Statements #11
MoMA, New York
«The Museum of Modern Art was created in 1929 for the express purpose of furthering and supporting the art of its own time, for “encouraging and developing the study of modern arts and the application of such arts to manufacture and practical life”.»
MoMA, New York
ref. Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Objects of Design, 2003; quoting the [...]
Design Museums Statements #10
Cooper-Hewitt, New York
«Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming.»
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
ref. Paul Warwick Thompson, director,* website
«Today, design is among the most accessible [...]
Design Museums Statements #9
Neue Sammlung, Munich
«Die Neue Sammlung [Munich] was founded in pursuit of a vision. “Humanizing society through design” was the way one of our directors described this goal. Today, we may no longer believe in this dream, something that manifests itself in objects. And yet almost a century after the collection was established, the items of artistic striving [...]
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 [...]
