The Museum Angewandte Kunst is a Frankfurt museum dedicated to applied arts. It is located in the Museumsufer (literally the Riva dei Musei, that is the area of the city that concentrates a large number of museums within it). The vast museum collection includes more than 60,000 objects of applied art covering a period of time from the twelfth to the twenty-first century: the collection includes furniture, textiles, iron objects, crystals and ceramics, pieces of extraordinary beauty from all over the world. Europe (also representative of the Jugendstil) and from Asia. Inaugurated in 1985, the museum is housed in a building designed by Richard Meier who, with a project strongly reminiscent of the architecture of Le Corbusier, created the new building integrating it with the existing Villa Metzler, a classicist villa of the 19th century. The result is an L-shaped complex formed by three white cubes that surround Villa Metzler, creating a square block as a whole, which is in turn surrounded by a vast park. Inside, the bright exhibition spaces are connected to each other by a large ramp. The Museum Angewandte Kunst also organizes numerous temporary exhibitions, dedicated to fashion and design, contemporary art, crafts and performing arts.
