The Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things (Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge) is devoted to the material culture of the 20th and 21st centuries shaped by industrial mass production. The core of the institution is formed by the archive of the German "Werkbund", an association founded in 1907 and made up of artists, industrialists and cultural politicians seeking to initiate fundamental reform ("Lebensreform") and a more modern-objective design of industrially manufactured products, architecture and living spaces. The major themes of the movement were quality, the appropriate use of materials, practicality, functionality and sustainability.
The Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things takes up a conscious position within this tradition and sees its task in material preservation and scientific documentation as well as in contemporary interpretation and reflection.
The museum has been collecting historically important design objects, items and archival material since the 1970s, with each item documenting our modern everyday life as it is affected by commodity culture. The museum currently has a collection of around 25,000 objects. It is located in a former factory building and functions as an open depot in which visitors have the opportunity to observe directly how the museum handles the collections on a space of roughly 500 square metres.
- Monday 12:00 - 19:00
- Tuesday-Wednesday closed
- Thursday-Sunday 12:00 - 19:00
Currently, admission is only possible with an up-to-date negative Covid-19 test, and an FFP2 mask. You can find all exceptions to the obligation to present a test in our hygiene rules under https://www.museumderdinge.org/online-tickets#/
Please maintain a minimum distance of 1.5 m from other persons at all times. It is mandatory to wear an FFP2 mask throughout the building. FFP2 masks are available at the museum ticket office.
- 1. January closed
- 24. December closed
- 25. December closed
- 31. December closed
Oranienstraße 25, 10999 Berlin
+49 (30) 92 10 63-11
+49 (30) 92 10 63-12
Admission price 6,00 €
Reduced price 4,00 €
upon presentation of the corresponding ID card for: schoolchildren over 18 years of age trainees students pensioners recipients of unemployment benefit (ALG I) military service members federal voluntary service members severely disabled persons (from 50 %) members of the Deutscher Werkbund Berlin Volunteer Card
Exhibitions
Events
Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things
Workshop of things
Workshop
Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things
Objektbiografie und Provenienzforschung
Umgang mit offenen Fragen zur Herkunftsgeschichte von Sammlungsobjekten
Lecture, talk
Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things
50 Jahre Werkbundarchiv
Tagung und Party am 23. Juni 2023
Miscellaneous
Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things
Remember me - an imaginary lost and found office (Drop-in Workshop)
Workshop
Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things
Things from A to Z - from the Alibi phone to the Rubik's Cube
In 45 minutes through the Museum of Things
Guided Tour
Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things
Kuratorische Führung "Story of My Life"
Guided Tour
Digital
Tickets
Admission price
6,00 €
Reduced price
4,00 €
upon presentation of the corresponding ID card for: schoolchildren over 18 years of age trainees students pensioners recipients of unemployment benefit (ALG I) military service members federal voluntary service members severely disabled persons (from 50 %) members of the Deutscher Werkbund Berlin Volunteer Card
Services
- Museum Shop
- Library
- Archive