Digital Tours
General Information› We offer digital tours for groups in German, English, and French.
› An internet connection and the free Zoom video conferencing software are required.
› On weekends and during holidays an additional fee of € 75.00 will be charged.
› Reservations for private tours must be made at least three weeks in advance.
Contact/Reservations
Vitra Design Museum, Visitor Services
T +49.7621.702.3510, F +49.7621.702.3590
info@design-museum.de, www.design-museum.de

Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames-Straße 2, D-79576 Weil am Rhein
T +49.7621.702.3590, F +49.7621.702.3590, info@design-museum.de, www.design-museum.deIwan Baan: Moments in Architecture
Iwan Baan is one of today’s leading photographers of architecture
and urban design. Join our exclusive digital tour and discover his
impressive images documenting the growth of global megacities,works by contemporary starchitects, and anonymous buildings allaround the world. Baan’s photographs are characterised by avibrant realism that puts the focus on people and their relationshipto the built environment. The guided tour of the first retrospective ofhis oeuvre opens up a fascinating panorama of human building.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00

Transform! Designing the Future of Energy
The buildings, infrastructures, and devices for generating,distributing, and using energy are products of human creativity. Our
digital tour explores the ongoing energy transition from a design
perspective: from devices for harvesting renewable energy to solarbuildings and wind turbines. Join us and discover how design canassist us in switching to renewable energies and reducing ourenergy consumption!
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00
Digital tour bookable from 8 April 2024

Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse
The annual themed presentation in the Vitra Schaudepot spotlights
visions of a future world manifested in design creations ranging fromearly science fiction film sets to the design of virtual spaces. The
digital tour highlights pioneering objects from the Vitra Design
Museum collection and examines how technological innovations
and utopian concepts found their way into our everyday
environment, influencing and shaping the world we live in.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00
Digital tour bookable from 3 June 2024

Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames-Straße 2, D-79576 Weil am Rhein
T +49.7621.702.3590, F +49.7621.702.3590, info@design-museum.de, www.design-museum.deNike: Form Follows Motion
The digital tour marks the milestones in Nike’s fifty-year history andexplores its ascent to the status of a global brand that holds acentral role in design and popular culture. The focus of the digital
tour is on Nike’s design history – from the company’s beginnings in
the 1960s and the design of its famous »swoosh« logo to iconic
products such as Air Max and current research devoted to futurematerials and sustainability.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00
Digital tour bookable from 7 October 2024

Garden Futures: Designing with Nature
Gardens reflect identities, dreams, and visions; they are deeply
rooted in our culture. Recent years have seen a resurgence ofinterest in the garden – not only as a romantic idyll, but as a field ofexperimentation for concepts related to social justice, climatechange, biodiversity, and a sustainable future. Gardens havebecome places of the avant-garde. Explore the history and future of
the modern garden on this exclusive digital tour.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00

Hello, Robot: Design between Human and Machine
From delivery drones to disability robots and internet bots: robotics
has found its way into our everyday lives. Yet the past years have also
revealed the risks involved in digital environments piloted byalgorithms and artificial intelligence. This exclusive digital tour
presents highlights from the exhibition including robots in the home,
in industry, and in healthcare as well as examples from cinema andliterature. At the same time, it broadens our awareness of the ethicaland political questions raised by robotics today.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00

Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames-Straße 2, D-79576 Weil am Rhein
T +49.7621.702.3590, F +49.7621.702.3590, info@design-museum.de, www.design-museum.deCollection Highlights
Explore the Vitra Design Museum’s renowned collection through adigital tour and get to know some of its highlights, including iconicpieces by designers like Arne Jacobsen, Aino Aalto, Verner Panton,
and Charles & Ray Eames. Alongside landmarks from two hundredyears of furniture design, the tour also introduces rare and lesserknown objects, prototypes, experimental models, and designs byanonymous makers.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00

Campus Architecture
The Vitra Campus is unique for its iconic contemporary architecture.
A digital tour now enables you and your group to explore buildings
by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Herzog & de Meuron,and SANAA on a remote visit to the Vitra Campus.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00

Japanese Architecture on the Vitra Campus
Following Tadao Ando’s Conference Pavilion, the Factory Building
by SANAA, and Kazuo Shinohara’s »Umbrella House«, anotherhighlight of Japanese architecture was added to the uniqueensemble on the Vitra Campus in 2023: the »Tane Garden House«designed by Tsuyoshi Tane. Join our digital tour and experience
these buildings in the context of Japan’s rich architectural heritage.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Tour fee: € 185.00

Credits: (Image 1) © Vitra Design Museum, Foto: Mark Niedermann; (Image 2) © Iwan Baan; (Image 3) © XTU Architects; (Image 4) © Vitra, photo:
Julien Lanoo; (Image 5) © Courtesy of Nike, Inc.; (Image 6) © Vitra Design Museum, ilustration: Lorenz Klingebiel and Dominik Krauss; based on thephoto: Les Jardins de Marqueyssac, Dordogne, France; (Image 7) © Vitra Design Museum, photo: Florian Böhm; (Image 8) © Christoph Niemann;(Image 9) © Vitra, photo: Erich Meyer; (Image 10) © Vitra, photo: Julien Lanoo.
Last update 12.02.2024. Subject to change.
Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames-Straße 2, D-79576 Weil am Rhein
T +49.7621.702.3590, F +49.7621.702.3590, info@design-museum.de, www.design-museum.de