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COLLECTION
Since the 1979s the WBA-MDD is collecting objects with design-historic significance as well as archive material and objects to document modern everyday life characterized by commodity culture. Presently the museum has a relevant collection of about 25.000 objects.
At a former factory building the museum presents itself in the fashion of an open depot, offering to its visitors an area of more than 500 m˛ to explore directly the museums practise in dealing with the collections. The objects are combined in model collections, illustrating for one thing the basics of Werkbund aims, for another thing common aspects of the material, functional, formal and utilitarian history of the things in the 20th century and contemporary product culture. The exhibits are contrasted in combinations full of potential: objects of well-known designers and anonymous creations, functional, puristic objects and so called “taste aberrations” or “Kitsch”, substantial “honest” objects and surrogate materials, trademark and no-name products.
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