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Established as of 1907, Die Neue Sammlung is regarded as the world's first design museum. The museum houses the largest design collection in the world, with some 80,000 objects from the fields of industrial design, the applied arts and graphic design.The collection's high quality, its diver-sity and historical depth allows it to present, in a unique way, all kinds of different aspects of the development of design. Ground- breaking special exhibitions and cooperation projects provide a lively forum for contemporary trends.Since the years 2000 and 2002, Die Neue Sammlung - a museum run by the Free State of Bavaria - has boasted two large new buildings featuring trans-disciplinary concepts: Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design (New Museum of Art and Design) in Nuremberg and Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. In these establishments, for the first time, comprehensive permanent exhibitions of design have been made available to the general public, side by side with the fine arts, graphics and architecture.

Established around 100 years ago, Die Neue Sammlung is considered the world's oldest design museum - regarded as such long before the word design acquired this meaning in German. Since then, Die Neue Sammlung has been making design history with its international acquisitions and stimulating exhibitions.
Today, with some 80,000 objects from the fields of industrial design, the applied arts, and graphic design, this state museum boasts, in its permanent collection, the world's largest design collection and is one of the leading museums dealing with this subject for the 20th and 21st centuries.

▲Die Neue Sammlung, Paternoster, Ron Arad and Photographs of Annelies Strba
Photo：Rainer Viertlböck

In 1907 the Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation) was founded in Munich. Closely linked with the ideas behind this movement, a "modern collection of exemplary items" began to be put in place. This became the core of the museum. From the very beginning the emphasis was on acquiring "modern" everyday objects boasting an exemplary design, what we would nowadays refer to as design. In 1925 the museum was established as a state-run institution and has borne the characteristic name , Die Neue Sammlung“, with all the commitment that this involves, since 1929.

The word "neu/new" in the museum's name (literally The New Collection) clearly signaled its agenda: to distance itself from the arts and crafts museums of the time, to devote itself to the international scene and to look constantly for trailblaz-ing quality design. These avant-garde objectives still characterize the museum today.