HfG-Archiv Ulm
The Ulm School of Design building celebrates its 70th birthday! Invitation to an open house on Friday, October 3, 2025, with free admission
The HfG building is celebrating its birthday! The Ulm School of Design Foundation and the HfG Archive Ulm are celebrating on Friday, October 3, 2025, with an open house and a colorful program: coffee in the cafeteria, family tours, digital experiences in the building, and a project to strengthen democracy.
The building of the former Ulm School of Design was designed by Swiss architect and co-founder Max Bill and inaugurated on October 3, 1955. It belongs to the Ulm School of Design Foundation. In the former workshops, the HfG Archive, part of the Ulm Museum, presents permanent and temporary exhibitions on the history of the HfG Ulm and design.
The HfG Ulm Foundation and the HfG Archive invite everyone to come to Kuhberg and join in the celebrations. Admission is free from Friday, October 3, 2025, through Sunday,
October 5, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
All information about the program can be found in our program flyer (download PDF in German language).70 years of HfG Ulm Programm overview in German
Current special exhibition: “Programmed for Hope. Architectural Experiments at the HfG Ulm”
In collaboration with TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt, the HfG-Archiv / Museum Ulm is presenting an exhibition that focuses for the first time on the pioneering architectural teaching at the Ulm School of Design (HfG). Founded in 1953 as the successor to the legendary Bauhaus, the HfG aimed to promote a sustainable material culture and at the same time strengthen the young democracy and the newly won freedom in Germany.
Read more on the exhibition website.
The exhibitions in the HfG-Archive are open from Tuesday to Sunday and on public holidays from 11 am to 5 pm.
Building of the HfG Ulm, 1955. Photo: Ernst Hahn. © HfG-Archiv / Museum Ulm, Sign. HfG-Ar Dp 090.18. All rights reserved
The Ulm School of Design (1953-1968) was an internationally recognized school for industrial design. Its founders – Inge Scholl, the sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, the graphic designer Otl Aicher, and the architect Max Bill – wanted to rethink and reorganize life in Germany after the end of fascism. In doing so, they oriented themselves to the ideas of modernism. Well-designed industrial products were to help everyone achieve prosperity and a good life in a democratically organized, free society.
Max Bill talking with Walter Gropius, Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher, 1954. Photos: Sigrid von Schweinitz, © HfG-Archiv / Museum Ulm, Sign. HfG-Ar Schw 3.297 (Bill), HfG-Ar Schw 3.384 (Aicher-Scholl), HfG-Ar Schw 3.053 (Aicher). All rights reserved
The HfG-Archiv Ulm has the task of comprehensively documenting the history of the Ulm School of Design.
In its dual function as a museum and archive, it makes the contents and significance of the Hochschule accessible to a broad public.
This is done through exhibitions, publications, events as well as the opportunity for scientific research.
With great pleasure we welcome you to visit us:
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