Sentence examples for museum of design from inspiring English sources

COOPER‐HEWITT MUSEUM OF DESIGN, Third Avenue at 7th Street.

The V&Ahas tried unsuccessfully to reposition itself as an exciting museum of design.

Apparently unable to decide whether to be a museum of design or the decorative arts, the Cooper-Hewitt has lacked the chutzpah to embrace both roles.

"It was the place for entertainment, for glamour — an icon even among the locals," said Cathy Leff, the director of the Wolfsonian museum of design here.

The structure in Miami Beach, by contrast, "sets a new bar for what parking garages could and should be," said Cathy Leff, the director of the Wolfsonian museum of design here.

When he first arrived at the Cooper-Hewitt Natiover Design Museum just over a year ago, Paul W. Thompson sent out clear signals that the country's pre-eminent museum of design -- part of the Smithsonian Institution -- badly needed a makeover.

Built around a domed rotunda, with views of the city and of the Alte Pinakothek, or Old Museum, it houses not only the Bavarian state collection of modern art but also the city museums of design and architecture.

Or even Fuglen, a coffee shop established in 1963 that has so many gorgeous original architectural details it's a living museum of Scandinavian design.

John H. Bryan, a former chief executive of the Sara Lee Corporation, owns an estate near Chicago that looks like a museum of early 1900s design but is not, at least not yet.

Deyan Sudjic, the museum's director, described how he had long seen the Commonwealth Institute as "the most exciting, utopian building in London", going on to highlight its future role as "the world's leading museum of contemporary design and architecture", an "active museum where new things and new ideas can happen, where research can flourish".

The park also contains Gaudí's house, now a museum of his designs (admission is 4 euros).