The New (Neues) Museum in Nürn­berg, Ger­many a Museum of Art and Design owned by the Ger­man State. The museum con­sists essen­tially of two col­lec­tions, the con­tem­po­rary art col­lec­tion (inter­na­tional art of the present) and a set mod­ern design by the new col­lec­tion Munich (Neuen Samm­lung München). The museum opened in 2001 and was designed by archi­tect Volker Staab. The main build­ing has a impres­sive archi­tec­ture with a 100-metres curved glass facade which let you take a look in the museum. Though the mod­ern archi­tec­ture it fits per­fectly into the old city of Nürnberg.

Neues Museum

For all sig­nage and wayfind­ing at the Neues Museum the archi­tect chose a famous type by Erik Spiek­er­mann (also from Ger­many), the type­face Meta. Throught the museum in all lev­els of com­mu­ni­ca­tion Meta is used. A type­face that fits well into its surroundings.

Design Deut­shland case study 08

The cur­rent exhi­bi­tion presents a cross-section of cur­rent and clas­sic designs of Ger­man design­ers and com­pa­nies from dif­fer­ent indus­tries. From graphic and inte­rior design to design of indus­trial prod­ucts ranges the spec­trum of this the­matic sec­tion of draft Ger­man design­ers and com­pa­nies. The case study will stay in the museum until Octo­ber the 5th of 2008.

Graphic, prod­uct & indus­trial design

Other exhi­bi­tions at the Neues Museum

The art col­lec­tion offers many insights into the devel­op­ment of art since the six­ties. The museum is divided in seper­ate rooms and every room show­cases a exhi­bi­tion on its own, the walls are printed with quotes from design­ers, mak­ing it a visual expe­ri­ence walk­ing through the Museum.

Design Col­lec­tion

When walk­ing through the museum you feel the inspi­ra­tion and you will enjoy the many dif­fer­ent art shown. You can find work of design­ers Warhol, Beuys and Neo Rauch. Some of the lat­est acqui­si­tions from the museum are the works of British artist Julian Opie and from Czech artist Zdenek Sýkora. The museum walls are plain white that allows the art to come alive in the spaces, but the roof is made of glass and lets in day­light which some­times gives too much light.

Other infor­ma­tion

When you are near Nürn­berg it well worth the visit, also the city of Nürn­berg, with its old build­ings and archi­tec­ture is well worth see­ing. We have spend about two hours in the museum to see its impor­tant works. Please visit their web­site for the lat­est infor­ma­tion about exhi­bi­tions, artists and open­ing hours.

Future exhibitons from 31st Octo­ber 2008 a new exhi­bi­tion will take place “Who killed the paint­ing?”, the com­pre­hen­sive col­lec­tion of Fluxus Ger­many. The new col­lec­tion includes impor­tant works by the likes of Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Arthur Køpcke, Ben Vau­tier and Wolf Vostell icons of art history.

• The offi­cial web­site of NMN (Neues Museum Nürn­berg) (Ger­man only).
• A infor­ma­tive arti­cle at Wikipedia (Ger­man only) about the museum.
• See a 360 Panoramic view of the sqaure the museum is located at.
• The offi­cial web­site of the archi­tect Volker Staab Architek­ten Berlin.
• The loca­tion of Neues Museum in Ger­many with Google Maps.

Neues Museum

Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürn­berg
Klaris­senplatz, D-90402 Nürn­berg
Tel +49 (0)911 / 240 20 41, http://www.nmn.de/
Open­ing hours: Tue-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat+Sun 10am-6pm