Category Archives: Design Museums
Design Museums Statements #4
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg
«The Museum’s collections are not set up on a cultural history basis, i.e. to reflect their times. Instead, one of the main criteria for selection of objects has been high aesthetic and technical quality. These days, the Röhsska Museum mainly collects contemporaneous material in the categories of handicraft, commercial handicraft and industrial design.»
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg
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Design Museums Statements #3
Design Museum Gent
«The Design Museum Gent is the only museum in Belgium specialised in 20th-century and contemporary design. Over the last 30 years, the museum has evolved from collectin predominantly 18th-century style furniture into a leading, internationally orientated institution that often features design. It comes as no surprise that there is no single definition of what design [...]
Design Museums Statements #2
Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen
«The Danish Museum of Art & Design is one of Scandinavia’s central exhibition forums for Danish and international industrial design, decorative and applied arts. The museum’s collections, library and archives constitute a central resource centre for the study of design and its history in Denmark. The Danish Museum of Art & Design brings together and [...]
Design Museums Statements #1
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
«The Stedelijk believes whole-heartedly in the power of the visual arts to speak directly and authentically about the human condition; it will therefore seek to exhibit art which has something to say about life, in whatever part of the world. In the design field, the museum will explore the way in which artistic and cultural [...]
