Deutsches Architekturmuseum

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The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (English: German Architecture Museum), or 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.

LocationMuseumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Collection size
  • 180,000 architectural drawings
  • 600 models
Visitors110,712 (2018)[1]
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Deutsches Architekturmuseum
LocationMuseumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Key holdingsErich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Archigram, Frank O. Gehry
Collection size
  • 180,000 architectural drawings
  • 600 models
Visitors110,712 (2018)[1]
ArchitectOswald Mathias Ungers (interior redesign)
Public transit access
Websitedam-online.de
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Interior of the museum

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:

References

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