GUIDED TOURS AND MUSEUM EDUCATION

Guided Tours IN ENGLISH dates on application, max. 15 participants, 45 € + 2 € admission for each person IN GERMAN on Sundays January 31, 2010 - 12 p.m. starting from                              February 7, 2010 - 14 p.m. without advanced booking, 3 € per person plus admission IN GERMAN ON SPECIAL SUBJECT dates on application, max. 15 participants, 45 € + 2 € admission for each person

1. "How to live?" Function instead of ostentation – this was the war-cry of the Deutscher Werkbund from its foundation until the 1960s agitating against Victorian pomp and period furniture, the kidney table and the bag lamp. The steel pipe seat, the Braun device and the Arzberg pot were not just guarantors for functional dwelling, but also became symbols for a better life. 2. 100 years of plastic material We are living in a world full of plastic. Plastic material has shaped the 20th century and changed people’s everyday life. A hundred years ago the first synthetic material came onto the market. Its applications and possibilities made the Deutscher Werkbund change its mind. By selecting objects from the permanent collection Dr. Heide Rezepa-Zabel illustrates the history and application of plastic material. 3. Deutscher Werkbund and product culture: Must have! This guided tour explores the relationship between package, promise and quality of brand products. It tells the history and various stories about the development of modern product culture and the role of the Deutscher Werkbund as a propagator of "good form". FOR VISUALLY HANDICAPPED AND BLIND PERSONS The Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge offers a guided tour in the „open storage“ of the museum. This tour combines an introduction to the permanent collection and the „tactile“ reception of selected objects. Participants are invited to take part in the discussion about the standards established by the Deutscher Werkbund, for example functionality, good design and sustainability. The tour will be dealing with the question of normative design of form and contradictionary demands towards contemporary object and consumer world in particular. tours on request, also apart from opening hours, max. 8 persons + accompanying persons, about 90 minutes, 45 € all inclusive

Thing-Interpretors on Sundays afternoon from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. our thing-interpretors await you to give information about single exhibits and the exhibition. for free

Thing-Consultation Examination and estimate by expert next date: March 12, 2010 (Friday) You own something of which you do not know from which time it dates, who designed it and how much it could be worth? A single piece, an industrially produced object of use or just a "good form"? In the consultation hour you can show our expert Dr. Heide Rezepa-Zabel (www.design20.eu) design objects and works of art for examination and estimation every second Friday of the month between 1 and 2 p.m.. For further appointments and questions please contact her directly: info@design20.eu or +49 (0) 172 / 317 03 99.