Everything Everything’s Jeremy Pritchard on Berlin’s Museum of Things

I got interested in German social history because I‘m a massive fan of the band Kraftwerk. Their whole metier was postwar Germany rewriting the script: a generation trying to reclaim some of its national characteristics. The Museum der Dinge is a great place to contemplate this history. It’s literally the Museum of Things and offers a walk through the consumer aspirations of the 20th century.

It is charmingly unprofessional, so unlike the V&A. Here you have mundane everyday objects but presented in contexts that make you think about them differently. You can wander through and choose a thread to follow: yellow things, say, or things from a certain period, or that perform a certain function.