Experience the Bauhaus museums and collections in Berlin (Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum fur Gestaltung), Dessau (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau) and Weimar (Klassik Stiftung Weimar).

Available in German ? This booklet brings together the locations of the Grand Tour of Modernism . Short texts explain their history. With the help of the maps in the booklet, you are guaranteed to find a destination very close to you.

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Extraordinary sites associated with the Bauhaus and modernism can be found throughout Germany?pioneering architecture that has enduringly shaped our understanding of life and work, learning and living.

The school building (1925/26) by Walter Gropius is regarded internationally as an icon of modern architecture. The Bauhaus experienced its heyday in the functional, minimalist building complex. Today it is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.

The Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum fur Gestaltung (1979) holds the world’s largest Bauhaus collection. The building, whose distinctive sawtooth roof silhouette has made it one of Berlin’s landmarks, is based on a design by Walter Gropius.

The ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau is one of the largest Bauhaus ensembles in the world. Today’s UNESCO World Heritage Site was built in 1928?30 under the direction of the second Bauhaus director, Hannes Meyer, with the aid of students from the Dessau Bauhaus.

Chilehaus was one of the first high-rise buildings in Hamburg and is an icon of German Brick Expressionism. This UNESCO World Heritage property still impresses with its unusual building shape and richly detailed clinker brick facades.

The Weissenhof Estate, with two houses by Le Corbusier that are on the UNESCO World Heritage List, is one of the world’s most important architectural monuments of classic modernism. Prominent international representatives of the New Architecture movement created the housing estate in 1927.

With construction of the centrally located Shaft XII (1928?1932), Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer created one of the most important surviving examples of modern industrial architecture. Today, the UNESCO World Heritage Site is a popular cultural tourism attraction and a symbol of the transformation of the city of Essen and the Ruhr area.