The Museum of Arts and Crafts (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe — MKG) is one of the most important museums of applied arts in Europe. Its collection includes artifacts from the ancient world to the present and encompasses 4000 years of European, Islamic and Asian cultures.
The museum was opened in 1877 and is located in a neo-renaissance palace. Inside, you’ll find several floors on which arts and crafts, interior design and photography from Europe, the Middle East and Asia are displayed. The permanent collection spans all time periods from the ancient world to the present day, and includes changing exhibitions about modern and contemporary culture. Recent years have seen exhibitions on tattoos, comics, computer games, the fashion industry, plastic waste and more. Check out the MKG's current and upcoming exhibitions on the official website.
Address
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Steintorplatz 1
20099 Hamburg
Opening Hours
Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m.
MKG Online
MKG is also one of Hamburg's museums with the most extensive digital collections and other fun for online visitors. Whether you just want to have a look or like to reuse materials for crafts yourself, MKG's online collection is vast, abundant and growing steadily.
Browse
Here you’ll find treasures from all over the MKG’s collection focusing on graphic design and photography.So get comfy. You can spend hours browsing the database without ever getting up from your sofa while you get an up close look at the many works of art.
What’s more, all objects tagged ‘Public Domain’ are available for free creative reuse. Get inspired by the MKG-Studio's convenient tips.
Our piece of advice: type in ‘Hamburg’ and discover a huge array of wonderful old pictures of the city as you’ve never seen it before.
Click here for the MKG online collection.
Create
MKG is a great place to find inspiration for your own projects - and not just by wandering its digital halls! The museum also has an entire section of their website dedicated to tutorials for art projects and crafts visitors can work on at home. So why wait? Get creative now!