Tin – the gleaming, silvery white, easily castable heavy metal – seems to have been almost forgotten in contemporary design discourse. In contrast, the material enjoyed great popularity over 100 years ago, especially in Art Nouveau style with its outstanding objects, such as ornately decorated cups, plates and candlesticks. But the historical use of tin goes back much further. The exhibition “Tin: From the Mine to the Museum” at the MK&G, in which students of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin are involved, traces the origins and ecological background of tin as a material based on around 30 selected examples. The exhibition includes objects by renowned turn-of-the-century designers such as Peter Behrens, Jules Desbois and Joseph Maria Olbrich as well as pieces fabricated by the renowned Kayser-Zinn Manufaktur and the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF).