红点设计博物馆·厦门

The Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen occupies the second to fourth floors of the southern podium of the Chengyi International Business Centre, No. 502 Xinglinwan Road, Jimei District, in the Xinglin Bay business district of Jimei New Town. It is the third Red Dot Design Museum worldwide and the only one in China, run by Germany's Red Dot Design Award with the Xiamen Cultural Broadcasting Media Group. The first Xiamen site opened on 3 November 2018 in the former Terminal 2 of Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport, some 10,000 sqm and then the largest airport museum in the world; the temporary galleries moved to the Xiang'an Banquet and Exhibition Centre in August 2021 when the airport was rebuilt, and the present museum opened on 28 November 2023. The new building totals about 10,350 sqm, with more than 4,000 sqm of net exhibition space, five independent galleries, a design shop, a design academy and a cafe. It displays more than 1,000 award-winning products from over 70 countries across the Red Dot product, brand and communication, and design concept awards plus the Contemporary Good Design Award. STEPS Architecture and Network Party converted the vacant retail podium, taking Andy Warhol's prediction that museums and shopping malls would merge as a brief: the escalators were removed and a huge double-spiral red staircase inserted into the full-height atrium, one flight carrying an LED display, the other climbing to the upper floors — a "museum without walls" that visitors wander like a mall. It stages more than ten international design exhibitions a year and hosts launches, design forums and workshops. Metro Line 1 to Chengyi Plaza station, then a walk or short bus ride of about one kilometre, serves the site; the museum opens Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00, last entry 17:00, closed Mondays, ticketed.