Bauhaus Museum Weimar
Opening Ceremony

With the opening of the Bauhaus Museum Weimar on 05/04/2019, not only a new museum building was inaugurated, but also a place was created in which the questions of the historic Bauhaus are continued into the present.

The ceremony was attended by numerous representatives from culture, architecture, politics, and international institutions. Among the speakers were Prof. Dr. Hellmut Seemann for the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the then Minister of State for Culture and Media Monika Grütters, the Mayor of Weimar Peter Kleine, the then Minister-President of Thuringia Bodo Ramelow, as well as Martino Stierli from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Following the opening, the first guided tour of the museum took place. The architectural presentation of the building was accompanied by architect Prof. Heike Hanada. Guests included representatives from culture, politics, and the public, among them the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

The opening made clear that the Bauhaus continues to hold contemporary social and design relevance more than one hundred years after its founding. Questions of function, material, everyday life, production, and responsibility continue to shape architecture, design, and art today.

In this context, engagement with reduced and functional design attitudes remains highly relevant. Architecture is not understood as style or historical formal language, but as a deliberate ordering of space, use, and atmosphere. The idea of reducing design to its essentials and deriving form from function, material, and use continues to carry immediate cultural significance.

The opening of the museum also demonstrated that architecture is more than the construction of buildings. It creates spaces for perception, discourse, and collective memory — and thus remains a lasting part of cultural responsibility.