Which city is home to the Bauhaus Archive museum?

The Bauhaus Archive museum is located in Berlin, Germany.

The Bauhaus Archive, or Museum of Design, preserves art, objects, documents, and literature connected with the Bauhaus school, which operated from 1919 to 1933. Its Berlin building was designed from plans by Walter Gropius and became an important architectural feature of the city’s Tiergarten area.

The institution began in Darmstadt in 1960, but political and planning difficulties prevented Gropius’s proposed museum there. The collection moved to Berlin, where the museum opened in 1979. Its distinctive sawtooth roof forms reflect the design of Gropius’s earlier concept for Darmstadt.

The archive is sometimes confused with the Bauhaus school’s historic sites in Weimar and Dessau. Those cities are crucial to Bauhaus history—the school was founded in Weimar and became especially famous in Dessau—but the Bauhaus Archive museum itself is associated with Berlin. The institution’s collection helps document Bauhaus architecture, furniture, typography, photography, and teaching methods.