The ADAM [Brussels Design Museum] is a space dedicated to design from the 20th and 21st centuries.

It was established after the Atomium’s acquisition of the Plasticarium collection in December 2014. The ADAM offers an innovative and surprising insight on plastic design from the fifties to the present (permanent exhibition / Plasticarium) and on other forms of design through other periods, expressions, materials and themes (temporary exhibitions).

The ADAM, it is also an auditorium with about 400 seats and an educational and cultural service with activities designed for children, teens and school groups. Lectures and screenings, in connection with the themes that are explored, enrich the museum’s program of activities.

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ADULT 10 €
CHILDREN [6-11], KIDS [+12], STUDENT, TEACHER and SENIOR [+60] 8 €
CHILDREN [0-5] 0 €

Monday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Tuesday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Wednesday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Thursday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Friday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Saturday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Sunday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

The ADAM is easily accessible for people with reduced mobility.

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The ADAM - Brussels Design museum is located in the Northern part of the city of Brussels, a 5 minute walk from the Heysel / Heizel metro station (line 6) and right opposite Hall 5 from the Heysel exhibition park and 100m from the Atomium.

- Underground : line 6 – Heizel / Heysel station
- Tourist buses : red bus stops [City Sightseeing Brussels], located 100m away at the foot of the Atomium
- Villo [bike rental] : station 281, located 30m away [on the Boulevard du Centenaire]

Exhibitions

Panorama. A history of modern design in Belgium.
[23.06.2017 > 07.01.2018]

The exhibition brings an overview of a hundred years of modern design in Belgium. Starting with the world-famous Art nouveau style at the turn of the twentieth century, it covers the social aspirations of the interwar avant-garde movement, the pedagogical experiments at the La Cambre school, the post-war design craze, the promotion of modernist Belgian design by the Brussels Design Centre and the impact of the environmental crisis in the 1970s. Through objects, graphic material, pictures and original film fragments, the exhibition showcases the multiple faces of modern design in Belgium: infused with social ambitions to improve everyday life, as an economic tool to boost the national economy and as a marker of the Belgian nation on large international exhibitions.

A tribute to Componibili.
[26.09.2017 > 29.01.2018]

From September 2017 to early 2018, the ADAM- Brussels Design Museum has the pleasure to host the exhibition A Tribute to Componibili, realized in collaboration with the Kartell Museo (Milan - Italy) and part of the Brussels Design September festival.

A Tribute to Componibili celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Componibili, a new type of furniture designed in 1967 by Anna Castelli Ferrieri. These were the first modular interior design pieces which could be assembled too. They were made of the very new ABS, a material which was an important milestone in the history of plastic due to its mechanical and aesthetic characteristics. Anna Castelli Ferrieri was able to understand, often before her male colleagues, the living needs of her times and she responded with very functional products such as the Componibili, which bore out that concept of modularity and became a leitmotif lasting down through the following decades. Far from the traditional furniture intended for certain specific environments with clearly defined functions (such as
the sideboard, the night table or the commode), Componibili fit into any context and met the living needs of young people in the 1960s.

To complete the exhibition, designers as Ron Arad, Mario Bellini, Antonio Citterio, Ferruccio Laviani, Piero Lissoni, Alberto Meda, Alessandro Mendini, Nendo, Fabio Novembre, Philippe Starck, Patricia Urquiola, Tokujin Yoshioka, and Emilio Pucci and Missoni, present their own personal interpretation of the Componibili.
Furthermore, the exhibition shows the new interpretations of Componibili by the Belgian designers Xavier Lust Unfold and Muller Van Severen, which will enrich the exhibition and will emphasize the strong connection with Brussels Design September festival.

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The CloudGuide-ADAM application is freely available via www.cloudguide.me/adam
Languages available: FR-NL-EN

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