Lisbon’s new Design Museum is one of the world’s leading museums of 20th century design and several critics see its collection as the best in Europe. It opened in 1999 in Belem Cultural Center and closed in August 2006 to reopen in the heart of the city. It will re-open in Rua Augusta (Baixa neighborhood) by the end of 2010. The museum will be housed in the previous Head Office of a Portuguese bank (BNU) and will be renamed the Design and Fashion Museum or simply MuDe (which also means “change” in Portuguese). The design collection consists of works by some 230 designers representing trends in design from around the world. There are works by design icons such as Phillipe Starck, Charles Eames, George Nelson, Arne Jacobsen, Paul Henningsen, Vener Panton, Masanori Umeda, Henning Koppel, and Tom Dixon, and includes almost 200 design classics embracing innovative furnishings, glass, and jewelry from 1937 to the present. And for the first time the museum will also feature Portuguese businessman Francisco Capelo’s fashion collection made up of 1200 couture pieces, including a famous Jean Desses gown that Renee Zellweger wore to the 2001 Oscars and Christian Dior’s landmark 1947 New Look. http://www.mude.pt/en/mude_site.html
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