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PERMANENT COLLECTION - OPEN STORAGE
Located in a former workshop-building, the museum is organised as "open storage" in which visitors can investigate the museal setup of the collection on about 500 square meters. In the permanent exhibition, objects are grouped into sample-collections. These show on one hand the basics of the polarising Werkbund-objectives, basic aspects of material-, shape-, function- and use-history of things within the 20th century and contemporary material culture on the other hand.
The objects face a very suspense constellation: Objects designed by very famous artists and anonymous design, individual pieces and mass-production, functional and puristic objects and so called "error in taste" or "Kitsch", substantial, "honest" things and material surrogates, branded articles and no-name products.
The special character and the unusual structure of the collection goes along with the development of a special exhibition-type in the WMD, the so called "open storage". The collections presented in the form of an "open storage" is permanently questioned, further developed and commented.
The WMD sees itself as museal laboratory which focuses on perceiving and making perceivable the history of things in the 20th century, based on today’s product culture. Further subjects of investigation are the museum-space, the impact of the specific museal structure on the object’s status and the construction of perception as well as the possibilities of aesthetic education in museums and exhibitions.
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