5 Tips for Making the Most of Your Day at Vitra Design Museum

Monica Ray
Art Museums of the World
5 min readAug 7, 2023

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Are you also a museum lover and a travel maximizer?
If so, visiting the Vitra Design Museum might just be your perfect day trip! Situated in a full-on, vast campus setting, this unique museum offers a captivating blend of architecture, design, culture – and a bit of retail therapy for your interior design dreams!

To help you make the most of your campus and museum visit, here are five essential tips to ensure you have an unforgettable experience at this beautiful museum located in Weil am Rhein in Germany.

The Design Museum by architect Frank Gehry — Photo Credits: @artmuseumsoftheworld

1. Start Early, Enjoy Breakfast on the way there

With opening hours from 10 am to 6 pm, it’s best to arrive early to fully explore the full Vitra campus and all the ongoing exhibitions. Consider having breakfast on the train to make the most of your time on-site. Or if you arrive at Badischer Bahnhof have a coffee at Bar du Nord, a cute café nestled inside the train station.

Remember, this isn’t your typical museum – it’s an full on campus with multiple buildings and things to do that deserve your time and energy to be fully appreciated. As once said by architectural critic Philip Johnson : “Since the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart in 1927, there has not been a gathering in a single place of a group of…

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Monica Ray
Art Museums of the World

Somewhere between design, art and tech. Writing about building design-driven UX teams. Interviewing creators, curators and collectors in the art world.