Bauhaus Museum in Weimar
Location: Germany, Weimar
Address: Stephane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423, Weimar
Building style: Neomodernism
Museum website: klassik-stiftung.de

Another Bauhaus Museum is located in the homeland of the school – in the city of Weimar. The new institution opened in 2019, on the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus.

Before the appearance of the current building, the museum of representatives of radical constructivism was paradoxically located in the classicist building of the stable. There were kept 250 works of teachers and students of the Bauhaus. The new museum has 13 thousand exhibits, and Walter Gropius personally chose the central items of the collection.
The museum is made in the Bauhaus style – it is a minimalistic concrete cube of five floors. They are united by a two-level open space. The surface of the façade is covered with 24 lines of LED lights and is cut with horizontal grooves with the words ‘bauhaus museum’.

The exposition focuses on the early years of the Bauhaus, from 1919 to 1925. After 1925, the Nazi government forced the school to move to Dessau, where it closed in 1933. On the ground floor there is a gallery that tells the story of the founding of the school. In the second floor there are exhibitions showing how Bauhaus ideas were applied. On the upper floors there are galleries dedicated to the directors of the Bauhaus of different years – Walter Gropius, Hans Mayer and Mies van der Rohe.


Next to the building is an ensemble from the times of the Weimar Republic, a former Nazi forum and a student dormitory of the GDR from the 1970s. The museum integrates these stages of Weimar architecture, creating a modernist topography. Also nearby is the Neues Museum Weimar and an exhibition space with an exhibition dedicated to forced labor under National Socialism. All these objects form the city museum quarter.



