Werkbundarchiv – museum of things

Housed in an old factory which is a lovely art deco building. Interesting shop. Absolutely packed with items, but I did not find it very engaging. There was not much information and very little in English and the items were not particularly self explanatory. It was like someone had beautifully curated an old hoarder’s house after they had passed away. I would recommend walking up the stairs and looking at the nice building and visiting the shop, but not bothering with the museum.

Wonderful museum highlighting mass manufacturing in the 20 & 21 st centuries. Lots of interesting things to read and gaze at.

What an unexpectedly diverse collection of stuff! We spent there quite a bit of time with my friend, not just looking at the things and being amused, but also trying to figure out what some of them were! 🤪 i took a lot of photos to do some research later. I wish there was a guide to tell fun stories of the things, but in any case, it was worth a visit! The area has some amazing Turkish pastry shops and restaurants/bistros.

Material and living history is so interesting. I recommend booking/spontaneous joining the guided tours.

Interesting small museum with a unique collection of mostly everyday objects (furniture, kitchenware, toys etc). It has a focus on industrial design and production. Its collection ranges from some pre-industrial manufactured to contemporary mass produced objects. What was particularly interesting was that it provided not only examples of exeptional objects of each time period but also shows average or even poor examples. I found this aspect unique to this museum, as it brought to light a certain survivorship bias one can have when thinking of the past. Where we think that objects were made to higher standards than today since we only see the surviving exeptional examples that did not end up in the trash.

Apparently they have just moved and aren't completely settled which a staff tried to explain but I don't speak German. The larger information posters have English translations but none of the information besides the exhibits have English . Only one room with small exhibit. I was done in 15 minutes which included using the wc.

really interesting museum of everyday stuff well curated

Interesting little museum with thousands of things to discover.

Housed in an old factory which is a lovely art deco building. Interesting shop. Absolutely packed with items, but I did not find it very engaging. There was not much information and very little in English and the items were not particularly self explanatory. It was like someone had beautifully curated an old hoarder’s house after they had passed away. I would recommend walking up the stairs and looking at the nice building and visiting the shop, but not bothering with the museum.

Wonderful museum highlighting mass manufacturing in the 20 & 21 st centuries. Lots of interesting things to read and gaze at.

What an unexpectedly diverse collection of stuff! We spent there quite a bit of time with my friend, not just looking at the things and being amused, but also trying to figure out what some of them were! 🤪 i took a lot of photos to do some research later. I wish there was a guide to tell fun stories of the things, but in any case, it was worth a visit! The area has some amazing Turkish pastry shops and restaurants/bistros.

Material and living history is so interesting. I recommend booking/spontaneous joining the guided tours.

Interesting small museum with a unique collection of mostly everyday objects (furniture, kitchenware, toys etc). It has a focus on industrial design and production. Its collection ranges from some pre-industrial manufactured to contemporary mass produced objects. What was particularly interesting was that it provided not only examples of exeptional objects of each time period but also shows average or even poor examples. I found this aspect unique to this museum, as it brought to light a certain survivorship bias one can have when thinking of the past. Where we think that objects were made to higher standards than today since we only see the surviving exeptional examples that did not end up in the trash.

Apparently they have just moved and aren't completely settled which a staff tried to explain but I don't speak German. The larger information posters have English translations but none of the information besides the exhibits have English . Only one room with small exhibit. I was done in 15 minutes which included using the wc.

really interesting museum of everyday stuff well curated

Interesting little museum with thousands of things to discover.