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will be renovated until spring 2019. From then on, the Museum für Gestaltung will operate the pavilion. A jury of experts unanimously chose the concept in September 2017 since the concept convinced with an "attractive, tailor-made programme for exhibitions and accompanying events". In December 2016,
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Originally intended as an international collection of examples, the Graphics Collection includes almost all graphic disciplines that were of importance for teaching at the former School of Arts and Crafts. The core was initially formed by drawings, prints and illustrated books, as well as textbooks
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within the museum, and temporary exhibitions at Toni Areal and in the Plakatraum. Most of the exhibitions shown in the Museum of Design are produced in-house and are developed in dialogue with the museum collections or through research projects. Exhibitions loaned from other institutions make up a
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and moved part of its Applied Art collection into it. Renamed the Museum Bellerive, the building housed the collection of glass, ceramic, wood, metal and textiles until 2017, when the museum was closed. Its collection was moved to a new location at Toni Areal, a building complexed opened in 2014
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The Museum of Design produces publications, either self-printed or in collaboration with well-known publishing houses, which function as an important part of the exhibition program. These include thematically organized series such as the "Design Collection" or the "Poster Collection" as well as
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the Museum of Design's main building contains an exhibition hall, gallery, reception area, cafeteria, shop and the vestibule to the lecture hall. The Museum of Design developed out of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, which was founded in 1875. In 1933, the museum and the School of Arts and Crafts
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The Applied Art Collection includes over 15,000 pieces. Originally assembled as a study collection by the Museum of Art and Design, the collection contains diverse objects in the areas of glass, ceramics, textiles and furniture spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. In geographical terms, it
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The Design Collection includes 10,000 products and 20,000 examples of packaging produced by famous designers, as well as representative examples of anonymous everyday design. Mass-produced products from the 20th century and the present are collected, with emphasis placed on Swiss design.
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The contents of the collections are continuously analyzed and researched in collaboration with the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) as well as other university-level institutions with the aim of contextually positioning them from a present-day viewpoint and opening them up for
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makes available objects that pertain to the current design discourse. Parallel to the collection of objects, an archive for Swiss Design is being built up that benefits and assists scholarly research in the field. The archive contains concepts, project studies,
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Exhibitions are accompanied by a program of tours, symposia, panel discussions, talks with artists, film and theatre performances and concerts. A specifically tailored educational program is devised for each exhibition.
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The Poster Collection comprises 330,000 posters (of which 120,000 have been photographed and indexed) and documents the international history of the poster from its mid-19th-century origins to the present day.
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the city parliament had approved operating subsidies of CHF 500,000 per annum for the new sponsorship for the years 2019 to 2022. In addition, the city will be exempted from rent of CHF 220,000 per annum.
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The collection includes political, cultural and commercial posters. For reasons explicable in terms of design history the geographical focal points are Switzerland,
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projects. In addition to study, documentation and conservation, other services such as research, specialist evaluations and reproductions are also offered.
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The Graphics Collection has existed since the museum was founded. It documents the aesthetic and cultural transformation of graphics in everyday life from
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The Museum of Design shows between five and seven temporary exhibitions annually in the hall and the gallery of the main building, small
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from the 15th to the 20th century. Press work, East Asian works, artists books, photographs and commercial art were added later.
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The four collections of the Museum of Design emerged from a teaching collection amassed by the Museum of Arts and Crafts.
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Through its permanent loans from the field of product design (an area that has been subsidized by the
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and source texts, as well as parts of the archives of design studios, companies and associations.
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in Switzerland. In 1968 the Museum of Design acquired the former home of the textile manufacturer
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Der Stadtrat von Zürich, Präsidialdepartement, Hochbaudepartement (21 December 2016).
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Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Zürich
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The museum is part of the Department of Cultural Analysis of the
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Museum of Design, Zürich (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich)
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concentrates on Europe, the US and modern Japan. Its
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about pioneers in the fields of theory and practice.
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Zürich
www.museum-gestaltung.ch
German
industrial design
visual communication
Zurich
Zurich University of the Arts
Applied Art
Kreis 5
Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Museum Bellerive
Lake Zurich
Arts and Crafts
Zurich University of the Arts
Adolf Steger
Karl Egender
Modern Architecture movement
Julian Bloch
University of the Arts
University of Applied Sciences
interventions
Europe
Cuba
Soviet Union

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