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The bicycle - cult object - design object

11.11.2022 - 22.09.2024 ,
Die Neue Sammlung (Design Museum in the Pinacotheca of the Modern)

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partly accessible
Opening Times
Open today 10:00-18:00
Address
Barer Straße 40
80333 München

The exhibition puts the topic of bicycle design in the limelight for the first time. The focus is thus on the design and not on the cultural history of these means of transport with all the different developments it has gone through. No less than 70 examples will be showcased that are among the most unusual and most exciting bicycles in design history.

Bicycle design is closely bound up with the history of technological innovations, be it the drive systems, the suspension, brakes, gear shifts or other components. The material with its particular properties (wood, iron, steel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, plastic, carbon, etc.) plays a decisive role in the frame design, for the weight or the aerodynamics, as does the manufacturing techniques used, which extend from classical frame-building using tubes (welding, butting, soldering, screwing, slot-ting, gluing) or mold-casted or pressed metal or plastic frames through to frames made on 3D printers.

Bicycle design is certainly not just about the skill of the craftsmen and the art of frame-building, not just the product of ingenious inventors, tinkerers, obsessed or enthusiastic amateurs, as can be seen from the countless designs by aerospace or automobile engineers, such as Paul Jaray, Hermann Klaue or Alex Moulton as well as by industrial designers in-cluding Luigi Colani, Richard Sapper, Michael Conrad, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Marc Newson, Christian Zanzotti or Ross Lovegrove.

Last edited on 22.01.2025

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Museum / Exhibition Centre: Die Neue Sammlung (Design Museum in the Pinacotheca of the Modern)

Founded around 100 years ago, Die Neue Sammlung is considered the oldest design museum in the world - long before the word design with this meaning even existed in the German-speaking world.The...

Location: München