Red Dot Design Museum Essen

Museum of contemporary product design in Essen, Germany, run by the organizers of the Red Dot Design Award. It occupies the former boiler house of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, built in 1928 to 1929 by Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer and rebuilt for museum use by Norman Foster in the mid-1990s. The Zollverein complex was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001. The museum shows award-winning products from around the world across several floors of the industrial building.

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