Sound of Bauhaus – Music Room in the temporary

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung

Join in!

Based on Kandinsky’s design for the wall decoration in a music room and his thoughts on synaesthesia, colours and shapes can be composed into pictures that spread out in the room. The wall decoration can be carried on and changed by all Long Night visitors during the course of the evening.

Suitable for anyone aged 6 and upwards

Event Location

Address

Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
Knesebeckstraße 1
10623 Berlin

www.bauhaus.de

Karte

How to get here

U2 Ernst-Reuter-Platz,
Bus 245, M45 Ernst-Reuter-Platz

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