Organising and displaying the 60,000 objects provides the basis for a discourse on design and enables these issues to be brought closer to the target groups by way of diverse formats.
To the collectionAs a practice-oriented research and development platform of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, the DESIGN CAMPUS is a curatorially developed and future-oriented think tank that deals with current challenges such as social change, digitalisation and the climate crisis. In addition to lectures, workshops and residencies as lab formats, an annual summer school lasting several weeks takes place. In 2025 the design campus will be suspended due to the temporary closure of the museum.
The Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden was founded in 1876. Inspired by the first Great Exhibition in London in 1851, museums of the arts & crafts / applied arts sprang up all over Europe with the purpose of providing models for handicraft and industry and fostering the export potential of local consumer goods. Frequently affiliated to schools of arts & crafts, an entirely new type of museum evolved: not a courtly and prestigious collection, but one compiled with the deliberate aim of educating taste and sensibility for quality.
