More than just a museum, the MHUB has become a symbol of the redevelopment of the Glòries quarter. It sits alongside Jean Nouvel’s Agbar Tower and the new Encants flea market<\/a>, rebuilt along modern and daring lines.<\/p>\n \nThe museum’s collection is made up of articles from a number of other exhibition venues across the city: the museum of decorative arts, the ceramics museum, the textile museum and the graphic art museum.<\/p>\n The museum focuses on the design, creation, production and use of objects over the centuries.<\/p>\n The Barcelona Design Museum includes 4 permanent and 1 temporary exhibitions. The permanent collections include:\n<\/p>\n The first exhibition is devoted to industrial and domestic design. It focuses on design in its functional, day-to-day forms: from tables and lamps to cars, domestic appliances and accessories for daily use.\n<\/p>\n The second floor is given over to the decorative arts in Catalonia, and houses a varied range of luxurious products: ceramics, pottery, fabrics, furniture, glassware, clocks… and even a carriage!<\/p>\n This exhibition considers the way in which the human body is transformed and set off by clothing. Take a fascinating journey through the history of fashion to see the ways in which silhouettes have been refined, made freer and taken on new volumes.<\/p>\n You’ll see how ways of dressing respond to the needs, social norms and moral demands of each period.<\/p>\n The exhibition looks at fashions from five different aspects:<\/p>\n This exhibition looks at poster art and advertising design, and at the emergence of a new type of professional: the graphic designer.<\/p>\n The posters on display are from both local and international sources (France, Switzerland, the US and the UK), showing the strength of foreign influences on graphic design in Spain and charting the history of the genre.<\/p>\n The museum organises guided visits to the museum-apartment at “Casa Bloc”, an icon of rationalist architecture in Barcelona (1932-1939), designed by the architects Sert, Torres Clavé and Subirana.<\/p>\n Casa Bloc is a residential building, commissioned by the Catalan government in order to house the city’s poorest workers with dignity, in a setting adapted to modern times. One of the apartments has been restored to its original state and is open for guided visits.<\/p>\n The Design Museum also plays host to temporary exhibitions on the lower ground floor. Find out what’s on by visiting the MHUB website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our simple relationship with technology – Mobile Week Barcelona<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n On the occasion of the Mobile World Congress that takes place in Barcelona from February 25, for the last three years, the week before the congress it’s held the Mobile Week.<\/span><\/p>\n Many events are organized, including this year’s exhibition “Our simple relationship with technology” in the design museum. The exhibition includes workpieces of some well known artists, it aims to show the relationship between art, science and technology.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Design Museum’s collections<\/h2>\n
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From the World to the Museum: Product Design, Cultural Heritage<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nExtraordinary! Collections of Decorative and Author-Centred Art (3rd – 20th Century)<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nDressing the Body: Silhouettes and Fashion (1550-2015)<\/h3>\n
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Graphic Design: from Trade to Profession (1940-1980)<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nOther areas of the Barcelona Design Museum<\/h2>\n
Museum-Apartment at the Casa Bloc, Vivienda 1\/11<\/h3>\n
Temporary exhibitions<\/h3>\n
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Overall impressions of the Barcelona Design Museum<\/h2>\n
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Useful information<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nBarcelona Design Museum: accessibility<\/h3>\n
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Barcelona Design Museum: ticket prices<\/h3>\n
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