German Architecture Museum

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Deutsches Architekturmuseum
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German Architecture Museum
Location Museumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Key holdings Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Archigram, Frank O. Gehry
Collection size
  • 180,000 architectural drawings
  • 600 models
Visitors110,712 (2018) [1]
Architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (interior redesign)
Public transit access
Website dam-online.de
Interior of the museum FFM Museumspadagogik.JPG
Interior of the museum

The German Architecture Museum (German: Deutsches Architekturmuseum) (DAM) is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as a set of "elemental Platonic buildings within elemental Platonic buildings". [2] It houses a permanent exhibition entitled "From Ancient Huts to Skyscrapers" which displays the history of architectural development in Germany.

Contents

The museum organises several temporary exhibitions every year, as well as conferences, symposia and lectures. It has a collection of ca. 180,000 architectural drawings and 600 models, including works by modern and contemporary classics like Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Archigram and Frank O. Gehry. It also includes a reference library with approximately 25,000 books and magazines. [3]

Awards

The DAM grants several awards:

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References

  1. "Besucherzahlen der Frankfurter Museen 2018". Stadtkind Frankfurt - Reflexionen aus dem urbanen Leben (in German). 20 November 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. Glancey, Jonathan: Obituary: OM Ungers in The Guardian, 18 October 2007
  3. www.frankfurt.de Archived 18 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 17 April 2011

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