t A collection of contemporary furniture, one of the many unique exhibits at this museum
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The Museum of Decorative Arts is home to unique artwork in media that visitors don’t usually find in other museums: from tapestries and wedding dresses to clocks and furniture.
t A collection of contemporary furniture, one of the many unique exhibits at this museum
Experience Tiergarten
t The boxy façade hides a spacious and open interior
The museum embraces many genres of craft and decorative art, from the early Middle Ages to the modern day. Goldwork is especially well represented, and among the most valuable exhibits is a collection of medieval goldwork from the church treasuries of Enger, near Herford, and the Guelph treasury from Brunswick. The museum also takes great pride in its collection of late Gothic and Renaissance silver from the town of Lüneburg’s civic treasury. There are fine examples of Italian majolica, and 18th- and 19th-century German, French and Italian glass, porcelain and furniture. Exhibits also include fashion, Jugendstil and Art Deco glassware and furniture, and Bauhaus and contemporary design.
Visitors enter on the first floor, where there is a fashion gallery. On the ground floor are exhibits from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and on the second floor are handicrafts from the Renaissance through to Art Nouveau. The basement is devoted to exploring contemporary and Postmodern industrial design.
The fashion gallery offers 150 years of fashion history.