The museum and the Vitra Campus are among the world’s leading design museums. It is dedicated to the research and presentation of design and examines design’s relationship to architecture, art and everyday culture. In the building, the museum holds temporary exhibitions.
The Vitra Schaudepot presents approximately 400 key objects from the extensive collection and resembles one of the largest permanent collections and research sites on modern furniture design worldwide.
The museum library and document archive are available to researchers.
The Barragán Gallery and Archive
Luis Barragán (1902–1988) is widely regarded as the most important Mexican architect of the twentieth century. Since 1996, the architect’s professional estate has been in the care of the Barragan Foundation, located in Birsfelden, Switzerland.
As part of a partnership between the Barragan Foundation and the Vitra Design Museum, the Foundation´s archive has moved to new premises on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.
The Barragán Archive joins the museum’s archival holdings from the estates of such prominent figures as Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Anton Lorenz, George Nelson, and Verner Panton.
The Barragán Archive is hosted in a facility located near the Vitra Schaudepot. This includes a state-of-the-art document repository, a study room for visiting researchers, and the Barragán Gallery.
The gallery show presents drawings, photographs, and other material from the Barragán Archive, together with biographical details and an illustrated chronology of modern architecture in Mexico. This ensemble of documents and supplementary information illuminates Barragán’s life and work in a larger context.
(Source and further information: Vitra Design Museum et Vitra Campus)
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