Until the end of November 2010, Deutsches Architekturmuseum will be closed to visitors. The building on Schaumainkai, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009 is to be renovated and brought up to modern-day standards, particularly with regard to fire prevention and safety technology.

While the conversion work is being carried out, Deutsches Architekturmuseum will make every effort to hold exhibitions and organize events at selected guest venues. It will, for example, plan the Urban Green: European Landscape Architecture for the 21st Century exhibition in collaboration with the Palmengarten. This will be staged the Palmengarten Gesellschaftshaus, and will explore the increasing wish for green spaces in inner cities, presenting more than 28 European contemporary landscape architecture projects. (Palmengarten, Frankfurt / Main, May 20 - Aug 22, 2010)

A little further away, at the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen, DAM will hold an exhibition on the occasion of the European Capital of Culture Essen 2010 entitled European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. It will be staged in collaboration with M:AI Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst NRW (Museum for Architecture and the Art of Engineering North-Rhine Westphalia). Every other year, the Fundacio Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, organizes the hitherto only European architecture prize. DAM is represented on the steering committee. In addition to the 2009 prize winner, the Norwegian opera house in Oslo by Snøhetta Architects, the exhibition will also feature the other 40 projects which made it into the final selection. (Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Essen, former Trichterhalle, March, 21 - Apr 20, 2010)

The museum’s educational activities will continue during the conversion work. Together with the neighboring Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt / Main, DAM will offer a range of workshops for children and teenagers.