The Collection | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The figure of Mars, turned toward the right, and carrying a battle axe in his left hand, a sword in his right hand, is accompanied by Aries (the ram) and Scorpio (the scorpion). At upper left the word "MARS" and the symbol for iron.

Two bands of mirror reversed repeating abstracted design composed of a vine cartouche containing a tulip and a fleur-de-lis, surrounded by flower buds and connected to smaller cartouches on a woven-like ground with a triad of flowers crowning the small cartouche bordered on the bottom and connecting the cartouches by repeating cartouche containing a flower and by vertical stripes of various thicknesses and on the top by a repeating decorative design.

This website represents Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s diverse collection, spanning thirty centuries of historic and contemporary design, including the world's coolest office, a large snail shell, snakes, a dragon and four bearded men, a cone propped up on a bench, a pair of colorful hands, a mysterious tv and a perpetual calendar .

This is a kind of living document, meaning that development is ongoing — object research is being added, bugs are being fixed, and erroneous terms are being revised. In spite of the eccentricities of raw data, you can begin exploring the collection and discovering unexpected connections among objects and designers.

If you'd like to see what we've been up to lately you can start by taking a look at the objects we acquired this year and last year or you can browse the objects currently on display in the galleries or you can see objects we've recently photographed .

You can also see our tallest, shortest, widest or narrowest objects - or just search for yourself.

Welcome to our collection!