page_title: Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
section_title: MAK Design Lab
hierarchical_section_title: Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna / Building / MAK Design Lab
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibition view
context_page_description: The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts is an arts and crafts museum located at Stubenring 5 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt. Besides its traditional orientation towards arts and crafts and design, the museum especially focuses on architecture and contemporary art.
context_section_description: On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, the MAK positioned itself more clearly than ever before as a museum for arts and the everyday world. Until 2014, the MAK Study Collection presented part of its extensive holdings in a material-specific technological order. In the course of this repositioning of the former study collection, MAK cooperated with the Austrian design team EOOS and the IDRV - Institute of Design Research Vienna in order to make cross-links between 21st century art and earlier epochs directly tangible.
  Since its transformation into the MAK Design Lab, almost 2,000 exhibits - divided into themed islands - have created a newly conceived showcase in the entire basement of the museum for lifelike references between historical arts and crafts and contemporary design. Interactive thematic areas form an illustrative course on areas such as cooking (including a replica of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt kitchen), eating and drinking, sitting, artistic, industrial and alternative production, transporting, communicating and ornament, and the Helmut Lang Archive, which shows the artistic highlights with selected designs.
  The newly created passageways and modular units lead to a connecting spatial experience and allow rapid adaptation to changing requirements. The MAK Forum forms a flexibly usable space, which is used as a meeting place as well as an experimental area for exhibitions and mediation formats.
  In the MAK Works on Paper Room temporary exhibitions take place—mostly from the holdings of the Library and the Works on Paper Collection—with a richness of topics presenting posters, architecture projects, style imitations, and Japanese woodblock prints, for example. 
  The MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection conveys information about all areas of applied art. The literature encompasses the time from the 16th century up to the present with some manuscripts, incunabulas, and printed works ranging from the 15th century until today. The Works on Paper Collection comprises ornamental engravings, posters, photos, hand drawings, watercolors, and plans as well as hand drawings from the archives of the Wiener Werkstätte. 
  The MAK Contemporary Art Collection serves as a presentation room for contemporary projects by international artists, i. a. engaging with topics from the fin de siècle period. 
  With its MAK Collection Online the MAK makes parts of its collection accessible to the public: 
  Japanese colored woodcuts / Ukiyo-e
  East Asian Art
  Late antiquity textiles
  Posters
  Ornamental prints
  Wiener Werkstätte - Drawings
  Joseph Binder—Graphic Design
  English fabrics and wallpapers around 1900 (Arts and Crafts Movement)
  Since May 2017, the MAK with its collection highlights can also be visited virtually on Google Arts & Culture: Gigapixel images of Gustav Klimt's design drawings for the execution of a frieze in the dining room of the Stoclet Palace in Brussels (1910-1911) can be seen as well as parts of the heroic epic Hamzanama, which is one of the major works of painting in the Islamic world.
caption: Visitors in the MAK Design Lab
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