3rd Roof terrace Floor School 3rd Floor Museum Ulm of Design (HfG) Museum Ulm HfG-Archiv The Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, HfG), founded in 1953 by Inge Scholl, Otl Aicher Passage to Cabinet of Curiosities kunsthalle weishaupt and , wrote design history until its early end 2nd Floor in 1968. To this day, the achievements of this institution are of fundamental importance for the education View of the Werklabor in the Museum Ulm, and work of designers as well as for research. Photographer: Oleg Kuchar Since 2011, the “HfG-Archiv” itself has been housed in the former building of the Ulm School of Design Werklabor (see address below). With the permanent exhibition 2. OG2nd “Von der Stunde Null bis 1968” as well as special at the Museum Ulm Pop-Up- Floor Exhibition-Space Administrative office exhibitions, the eventful history of the HfG from its The new “Werklabor” serves young and old to work, foundation to its end can be experienced at the origi- research, discuss, experiment and try out different nal location. artistic techniques. With a wide range of events— 1st Floor Chapel interdisciplinary workshops, advanced education, Studio restoration performances and readings around the collection and

special exhibitions—it invites to exchange and to Lift The history of the Museum Ulm Above: Hans Gugelot, Dieter Rams: encounters. The Museum Ulm and the “HfG-Archiv” Kompaktgerät Braun SK 4 the would like to embed art, design and culture in (so-called “snow white coffin”), 1956, © Museum Ulm/HfG-Archiv, people’s everyday lives, open their eyes to the unfami- Restroom Photographer: Wolfgang Siol liar and arouse their curiosity. From the end of 2020: Below: Max Bill, Hans Gugelot, 1st 1. OG Paul Hildinger: Ulm Stool, restoration and Floor 1954, © Museum Ulm/HfG-Archiv, Further information on the graphic showroom depot Photographer: Ernst Hahn offers of museum education

for daycare centers and Museum Ulm | HfG-Archiv Museum Ulm school classes can be found Am Hochsträß 8, 89081 Ulm Marktplatz 9, 89073 Ulm at www.museumulm.de. 0731 161-4370 0731 161-4330 Ground Floor Renaissance courtyard [email protected] Inquiries and bookings for [email protected] hfg-archiv.museumulm.de groups and private guided www.museumulm.de Special Exhibition Admission tours by mail to www.nextmuseum.io Permanent & special exhibition [email protected] Admission Modern art and 21st century Lift € 4,50 (€ 3,50 reduced) or by phone at € 8,— (€ 6,— reduced) Permanent exhibition, when +49(0)731-161 4307 Free admission every Old Masters: Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque Ground Come Experience there is no special exhibition first Friday of the month. Archaeology Floor € 3,50 (€ 2,50 reduced) Opening Times Restroom and design The history of the Museum Ulm Free admission every Thu—Fri: 11 am—5 pm Shop first Friday of the month. Cash desk ! history! Sat, Sun: 11 am—6 pm Education Werklabor Café marvel Opening Times Bar Café Museum: Thu—Fri: 11 am—5 pm Mon—Sat:­ 10 am—midnight Entrance Sat, Sun: 11 am—6 pm Folder: www.studiosued.de Sun: 10 am—5 pm Ornamental disc, The Collection Old Masters How does contemporary Blaustein-Ehrenstein, Neolithic, around 3,900 BC, © Museum Ulm, Photographer: Stadtarchiv Ulm, including the events influence the develop- Foundation Wolfgang Adler cabinet of curiosities ment of a museum? What Kurt Fried Collection The Collection Old Masters is dedicated to Ulm’s art With the Foundation Kurt Fried Collection, the can the museum of the future : The and cultural history from the Middle Ages to 1900 Woman with a yellow jacket, Museum Ulm presents the most important movements look like? The exhibition 1913, watercolour, © Museum Ulm Archaeological Collection and comprises paintings, sculpture, works on paper, of artistic creation in the USA and Europe from goldsmithery, furniture and clocks from six centuries. “A Question of Time?” the 1950s to the 1980s. The publicist and publisher The archaeological department of the Museum Ulm One focus is the extensive collection of late Gothic The Graphic Collection Kurt Fried (1906—1981) donated his top-class art ranges from the Neanderthal period to the Ulm art from Ulm and . Of unique importance explores these and other collection to the museum, comprising some 440 The graphic collection of the Museum Ulm includes of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. are also the approximately eighty preserved works questions. The presentation works by 260 international artists. Beginning in 1959, The absolute highlight is the worldwide unique Lion from the former cabinet of curiosities (“Kunst- und around 25,000 works. It offers an overview of the Kurt Fried regularly exhibited progressive art, which Man, with which the Museum Ulm owns one of the Wunderkammer”) of Christoph Weickmann (1617— presents a reappraisal of most important and most formative artists of the 20th was not yet represented in German museums, in his century, which extends from French graphic art of oldest figurative carvings in the world. The sculpture 1681) with their valuable exotica from Africa, Central the history of the museum, non-commercial gallery, the „studio f“. From most made of mammoth ivory, about 40,000 years old, America and Asia. The collection of Old Masters is the late 19th and 20th century, a comprehensive group of his exhibitions and beyond, he acquired works by is the earliest known representation of a fabulous exhibited in the listed “Kiechelhaus”, the residential which also includes the of works by Picasso, over representatives of German then aspiring international artists. Thus his collection creature. It was discovered in the Stadel cave in the and commercial building of the merchant family Expressionism, of “Der Blaue Reiter”, “Die Brücke” became a real “course book” for art after 1945. Lone Valley, which is part of the UNESCO World Kiechel from Ulm. development of the archive and the “Bauhaus” to the period after 1945. Since 1970, Heritage Site “Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian of the former Ulm School the focus has no longer been on the individual work Jura”. of one artist, but rather on coherent cycles and the of Design. Objects from the works of groups of artists. Due to the high sensitivity Lion Man, Michel Erhart: of the works, they can only be shown temporarily. Gerhard Richter: Palaeolithic, around 40,000 BC, Reliquary bust of St. Mary various departments offer Kurt Fried and Hans Jürgen Müller, © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Magdalene(“Schöne Ulmerin”), 1966, Foundation Kurt Fried im RP Stuttgart/Museum Ulm, around 1475, © Museum Ulm, Collection, © Museum Ulm, Photographer: Yvonne Mühleis Photographer: insights into the extensive Photographer: Bernd Kegler Karl-Siegfried Mühlensiep collections of the museum. Wassily Kandinsky: Untitled, 1912, watercolour, Visitors are invited to partici- © Museum Ulm

Cabinet of curiosities, © Museum Ulm pate in discourses on the Photographer: Henry M. Linder future development of the museum.