Event period : Permanent

The Color of Glass

Highlights of Die Neue Sammlung in its diversity and colorful splendor
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Exhibition view, The Color of Glass.
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung (K. Mewes)

About the Exhibition

In a selection of its highlights, Die Neue Sammlung shows glass in all its technical diversity and brilliant colors.

Glass defines and accompanies our daily lives in all manner of ways. As it is so pervasive we tend to take it for granted yet in terms of its material composition, glass is a high-tech product and manufacturing and refining it requires extensive knowledge. Glass is blown, pressed, shaped in molten form, and then free-formed, etched, or engraved in front of the furnace.

The purpose-designed gallery brings together a selection of highlights: mass-produced hollow glass for everyday use, unique, individually crafted objects, as well as artistic and architectural designs.

The presentation not only showcases the fascination colored and clear glass exert on us, but also reflects technical craftsmanship, a variety of different formal vocabularies, and different functional requirements that glass ideally fulfills.

The spatial concept masterminded by Munich-based design office OHA interweaves design, craftsmanship, and fine art in a quite special manner and simultaneously reflects the museum’s interdisciplinary and international approach.

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Opening hours:

  • Daily 10:00 – 18:00

  • Monday closed

  • Thursday 10:00 – 20:00

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Bernard Heesen, Objects, 2022
Bernard Heesen, Objects, 2022.
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung (K. Mewes)
Ann Wolff, Domus I,
Ann Wolff, Domus I, 2006.
Photo: © Ann Wolff / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Pierre Wilén
Objekt Antares von Michele de Lucchi, 1982
Michele de Lucchi, Antares, 1983, Memphis.
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung (A. Laurenzo)
Glass object by Ritsue Mishima
Ritsue Mishima, Ice Finger, 2021.
Photo: Francesco Barasciutti
Sebastian Herkner, Bell table, 2012
Sebastian Herkner, Bell table, 2012.
Photo: © Sebastian Herkner, ClassiCon, Die Neue Sammlung (K. Mewes)
Rectangular glass objects with different openings by Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslavá Brychtová
Stanislav Libenský und Jaroslavá Brychtová, Prostor I-III, 1991/1992.
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung (A. Laurenzo)

Programme Tip

Sunday, January 26th, 2025, 10:15 a.m. Paula Scher. Family workshop

This is how it goes – colorful maps by Paula Scher. A workshop for children aged six and over with accompanying adults.

The graphic designer Paula Scher has created a special kind of spatial experience for her exhibition in the Die Neue Sammlung. We enter oversized maps and move through the works of art in the exhibition.

Posters everywhere, letters, snippets of words, above and below, the levels blur, stories arise in the head. We try to decipher the works of art together. In the factory you draw, paint and glue your own map.

To Programme
Photo exhibition. In the foreground a car (Porsche), colourfully painted. In the background posters and layouts by Paula Scher. Screens on the right. The floor is a colourful map.
General view of the exhibition, Paula Scher – Type is Image, 2023.
Photo: Anna Seibel

FAQs

A visit to the Pinakothek der Moderne costs
regular 10 Euro
reduced admission 7 Euro
Sunday admission 1 Euro

Children and young people under the age of 18 have free admission.
We cooperate with Kulturraum München.

You can buy a ticket at the ticket office on site or online. You can find more information on the Pinakothek der Moderne website.

You can find an overview of accessibility at the Pinakothek der Moderne on the Kultur barrierefrei München website.
The design museum also offers an inclusive touch station in the X-D-E-P-O-T, which everyone can explore independently.

We provide an overview of what is going on at Die Neue Sammlung under programme. You can find out everything about guided tours and group bookings on the Pinakothek der Moderne website.

  • Curated by:

    Angelika Nollert, Xenia Riemann-Tyroller, Josef Straßer

  • Supported by:

    PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e.V.

    Loans and donations:
    Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
    Gustav van Treeck Werkstätten für Mosaik und Glasmalerei
    Thierry Boissel
    Lutz Holz