Event period : Permanent

The Color of Glass

Highlights of Die Neue Sammlung in its diversity and colorful splendor
Installation view “The Color of Glass”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung, Gerhardt Kellermann

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.


Plan a visit

Where?

Opening hours:

  • Daily 10:00 – 18:00

  • Monday closed

  • Thursday 10:00 – 20:00

You can see the exhibition installation "The Color of Glass" consisting of glass wall and floor elements in which various glass objects are shown.
Installation view “The Color of Glass”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2024
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung, Gerhardt Kellermann
You can see the exhibition installation "The Color of Glass", a glass showcase attached to the ceiling in which various glass objects are shown on two levels.
Installation view “The Color of Glass”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2024
Foto: Die Neue Sammlung, Gerhardt Kellermann
You can see the exhibition installation "The Color of Glass", a glass showcase attached to the ceiling in which various glass objects are shown on two levels.
Installation view “The Color of Glass”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2024
Poto: Die Neue Sammlung, Gerhardt Kellermann
You can see the exhibition installation "The Color of Glass" consisting of glass wall and floor elements in which various glass objects are shown.
Installation view “The Color of Glass”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2024
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung, Gerhardt Kellermann
You can see the exhibition installation "The Color of Glass" consisting of glass wall and floor elements in which various glass objects are shown.
Installation view “The Color of Glass”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2024
Poto: Die Neue Sammlung, Gerhardt Kellermann
You can see the exhibition installation "The Color of Glass" consisting of glass wall and floor elements in which various glass objects are shown.
Installation view “The Color of Glass”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2024
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung, Gerhardt Kellermann

Programme Tip

Sunday, 07.27.2025, 11:00 am Guided tour in German Sign Language

with museum signer Lutz Pepping on “100 Years – 100 Objects”

Lutz Pepping guides though our exhibition “100 Years – 100 Objects”.
The event will take place in German sign language (without translation).

The meeting point is in the rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne. Please purchase a museum ticket in advance.

The tour is free. Tickets are available at the cash desk or in the webshop (from 14 days before the date).

Installation view “100 Years – 100 Objects”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2025
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung, Gerhardt Kellermann

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