Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge

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The Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge is a museum of the product culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, which is characterized by industrial mass and commodity production. The core of the institution is the archive of the Deutscher Werkbund. This association of artists, industrialists, and cultural politicians, founded in 1907, strove for a reform of life as part of the utopian cultural tendencies at the beginning of the 20th century. As an autonomous organization, the Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge consciously stands in this Werkbund tradition and sees its task equally in its material preservation and scholarly documentation as well as in its contemporary interpretation and reflection. The collection, presented as an "open depot," is constantly questioned anew, further developed, and commented on within the framework of exhibition projects. This content has been machine translated.