New Bauhaus Museum celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus

The Bauhaus Museum Dessau opened today. After a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Dr Claudia Perren, Director and CEO of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel, Dr Reiner Haseloff, Prime Minister of Sachsen-Anhalt, and Peter Kuras, Lord Mayor of the City of Dessau-Roßlau, the doors to the exhibition Versuchsstätte Bauhaus. The Collection officially opened on 8 September 2019 at 12.30 pm. “We are happy to be able to present the Bauhaus Museum Dessau to the public after just under two and a half years of construction,” says Dr Claudia Perren, Director and CEO of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. “Due to the uniqueness of our collection, we want to tell the story of the Bauhaus School in Dessau. There is no single image that can convey the heterogeneous and multi-faceted history of the Bauhaus. In our museum, our goal is to visualize the search movements that show how art and design could attain social releva