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The Vitra Design Museum researches and presents the history and present of design, relating it to architecture, art and everyday culture. It presents two major temporary exhibitions a year in the Frank Gehry building on the Vitra Campus, and its exhibitions are designed to travel and are shown internationally.

Its collection includes design icons and several archives and estates, and the museum library and document archive are available to researchers on request. The Vitra Schaudepot by Herzog & de Meuron shows about 400 key objects from the collection. Services also include workshops, guided tours, an online shop and a publishing house, and the museum develops its own product lines, which are used to fund its cultural activities.

Vitra and Chairman Emeritus Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989 as a private collector's museum. Alexander von Vegesack led it from 1989 to 2010, and Mateo Kries has directed it since 2020. The team has over 50 staff, and the Vitra Design Museum Gallery opened in 2011 and the Vitra Schaudepot in 2016.

Product: Temporary design and architecture exhibitions, a permanent collection display at the Vitra Schaudepot, workshops, publications and an online shop.