MUDE - Museu do Design

MUDE — Design Museum, in Lisbon, occupies a building that preserves the memory of the former headquarters of Banco Nacional Ultramarino. Today, that financial past coexists with a museum dedicated to the many expressions of design. The building itself is treated as a living archive: its movable and integrated heritage forms part of the collection, and its architectural evolution is understood as material to be read. The collection brings together documentary and museum inventory entries organised into areas such as graphic design, fashion, contemporary jewellery, product, editorial and stage design. The long-term exhibition “What are things for? Pieces from the MUDE Collection 1900-2020” proposes looking at design not only as form, but as process, use, communication and consumption. Between the display depot, specialised library and exhibition spaces, MUDE shows how objects also tell the history of ideas.