[4][5] The functional low-rise building, which also houses the museum café, is designed flexibly thanks to a novel spatial concept with movable partitions.

The cost-effective building also attracted attention in the German architectural scene and also received the Architekturpreis der Stadt Leipzig in 2005.

One of the museum's most important donors is the entrepreneur (including Schwartauer Werke) and art patron Arend Oetker, who finances a significant part of the house's operation.

Made from upturned brooms from the Paris city cleaning service, it is an attraction for children and an iconic public work of art in Leipzig.

[7] Research is being carried out "in order to realize a version of the work of art that does justice to the artistic interest in the contradictions of the material and at the same time the current need for sustainability.