BERLIN.- Starting on 2 January 2012, the Museum of Decorative Arts will be closing its location at the Kulturforum due to construction of an exhibition gallery for the museum’s fashion collection, which has grown in recent years as a result of numerous new acquisitions. In the future, this new focus of the museum’s collections will make it possible to present an extraordinary overview of the development of fashions in Europe from the 18th century to the present. Furthermore, jewelry, porcelain, glass art and Art Nouveau furniture will be shown in a newly designed exhibition. Many of these works were acquired by Julius Lessing, the museum’s first director, at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris from well-known manufacturers such as Lalique, Tiffany and Sèvres. The design collections, which include Bauhaus classics, German designs from the 1950s, and current products from around the world, will also be