Vitra Design Museum

The Vitra Design Museum is one of the world's leading design museums. A large part of the exhibits is located in a building designed by Californian architect Frank O. Gehry. The museum first opened its doors to the public in 1989 and is dedicated to documenting historical and contemporary trends in industrial furniture design. The Vitra Design Museum exhibits on related topics of design and architecture. There are several other renowned partner museums worldwide. Vitra also owns a manufacturing facility here for training students and apprentices, publishes books, and other special publications. The collection of the Vitra Design Museum contains nearly 3,000 exhibits and is certainly one of the most important and world-renowned of its kind. The museum has representative samples of all major stylistic epochs in modern furniture design - from the early period of industrial mass production in the mid-19th century through designs typical of functionalism and modernity to contemporary postmodern furniture sculpture.
For research purposes, the museum is also able to provide a comprehensive library as well as an archive of period photographs, drawings, patent certificates, posters, and furniture catalogs.
The museum continuously organizes and creates informational exhibitions on historical and contemporary design trends. The collection includes, for example, the following items: Ron Arad: Stick & Stones; Czech Cubism: Architecture and Design 1910-1925; Office Civic: Ideas and Notes in the New Office World; African Chairs; Thonet - Pioneer of Industrial Design; 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection; Children's Sizes - Material of the Children's World; The Work of Charles and Ray Eames; Frank Lloyd Wright: The Living City; Mies van der Rohe: Architecture and Design.