Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
Every exhibition in its own colour
One stock of walls for all temporary exhibitions. The museum repaints it for each new show.
Mila-wall® by MBA – modular exhibition walls
A new exhibition. Overnight
With Mila-wall, you create new exhibition spaces in no time: modular walls that can be set up almost without tools, rearranged as you like and reused for decades. Seamless surfaces with no visible technology – the focus stays on the art.
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague – temporary exhibition on Mila-wall modules
This is Mila-wall
Mila-wall is our display wall system made of ready-made modules. We develop and manufacture it in Reutlingen, as a second-generation family business. Exhibitions have been built with it since 1990. Large museums work with it, and so do small institutions: your own stock starts at just six modules.
Jesuitenkirche Art Gallery. Aschaffenburg, video
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exhibitions from a stock of 700 modules: Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, since 2017.
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repainted and still in use: the modules in Dresden, since 2004.
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The oldest modules date from this year. They are still in use today.
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interventions in the building fabric. The walls are free-standing, even in listed buildings.
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How Mila-wall works
A wall you don't build, you simply put in place. Every module is finished when it arrives. You hook it into the next one, and you're done. No holes, no dust, no traces.
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A new exhibition without a building site
If you rebuild four times a year, you have forty building sites in ten years. With Mila-wall, you use the same walls again and again.
How an exhibition changeover works
With built walls
- Plan the layout
- Obtain quotes
- Approve the costs
- Schedule tradespeople
- Cover the floor, seal the room against dust
- Build, fill, sand and paint the walls
- Clean the room
- After the exhibition: tear down and dispose of the walls
With Mila-wall
- Plan the layout
- Fetch the modules from storage
- Set up the modules
- After the exhibition: dismantle the modules and put them into storage
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Institutions that made the switch
From Prague to Paris, museums and cultural institutions work with Mila-wall. Some for more than twenty years.
“Building new temporary walls over and over again would be too costly for us.”
“With just two or three staff members, we can create complex spatial worlds and present our exhibits to their best advantage.”
“The sustainability of the display wall system, which we have now been using for twelve years, proved to be a major advantage.”
Dresden State Art Collections – Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs
The alarm inside the wall
Temporary exhibitions in the Royal Palace. Sensors in the walls protect the exhibits, yet none of it is visible.
Württemberg State Library Stuttgart
Three exhibitions a year
Since 2020, the library has designed its special exhibitions with 55 display walls. For each new theme, they get new foils.
Jesuitenkirche Art Gallery Aschaffenburg
An exhibition in the nave
Free-standing, red-foiled walls structured the historic space and created hanging surfaces. Afterwards, the nave was empty again.
Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
Eleven exhibitions, the same walls
Since 2018, the centre has built its special exhibitions from the same wall modules, each time with a different spatial concept.
Brothers Grimm House Steinau
48 walls for Dalí
For the show “Dalí – Life and Work” with more than 500 exhibits, the museum bought its own walls, foiled in red and blue. This means it can now hold special exhibitions several times a year.
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Applications
Whether museum, gallery, trade fair or custom solution: Mila-wall is at home wherever spaces change.
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Museums & exhibitions
Temporary and special exhibitions from your own stock. The walls are in place before the loans arrive.
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Galleries
A new hang every few weeks. Seamless surfaces, foil that peels off without residue, paint that can be painted over.
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Travelling exhibitions
The same set-up at every venue. Transport containers in four sizes, modules that withstand many set-ups and dismantlings.
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Exhibition stand construction
A stand that adapts to any floor space. Power and data run inside the frame, and the stand travels on to the next trade fair.
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Events
A brand world for a weekend: free-standing in the room, foiled in your corporate design, then blank again afterwards.
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Custom-made products
Radii, doors, showcases, media technology. Made for your project, compatible with the standard system.
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Display walls from 0.5 to 4 metres
Our display walls come in four widths and eight heights. Every width works with every height. Intermediate sizes are made on request.
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- Wall thickness
- 40 mm
- Weight
- Approx. 23 kg for 1 × 2.5 m
- Extra height
- Stacked up to 6 m
- Hanging
- Rails, hooks, steel cables; nailable up to 20 kg per nail, with a wooden insert for heavy exhibits
- Fire protection
- Surfaces flame-retardant to DIN 4102 B1
- Stability
- Free-standing in angled configurations, adjustable feet for uneven floors
- Storage
- In specially developed transport trolleys
Specifications for Mila-wall Series 100; other series on request.
Doors and windows
Each one takes up a single module slot in the same grid as the walls. Radii, showcases, acoustic and screen modules fit in the same way; power and data run inside the frame.
Door
- Space
- One module, 1,000 mm wide, 2.5 to 4 m high
- Clear opening
- 815 × 1,930 mm
- Design
- Flush-mounted, concealed hinges, lockable
- Variants
- Left- or right-hinged, double-leaf, with glass
- Intended for
- Storage, technical rooms, back office
Window
- Space
- One module, 1,000 mm wide, 2.5 to 4 m high
- Glass
- Safety glass, 6 mm
- Frame
- 80 mm at the sides, 100 mm at top and bottom
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Our foils, since 1975
We supply matching self-adhesive foils for the walls. That's where it all began for us.
- 176 colours and decors. From white to bold shades, metallics and wood finishes, low-reflection and scratch-resistant.
- Paint over or re-cover. The self-adhesive foils can be painted with solvent-free paints. When the layers of paint get too thick, simply peel off the foil and re-cover the wall.
- Made to measure, from stock. On a roll or cut to the exact wall size, down to the millimetre, available at short notice.
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Good questions
How quickly can a new exhibition really be set up?
The walls go up in hours, the exhibition in days. In Prague, the complete architecture is in place within two to three days. Two or three people set it up from a stock of 700 modules. Hanging, lighting and graphics follow afterwards, as always.
Who sets it up – and how much does a module weigh?
Your own team. They hook the modules together almost without tools; two people are enough, and a short briefing is all it takes. A standard module one metre wide and 2.5 metres high weighs around 23 kilograms. Only the accessories for free-ending walls require a screwdriver.
What can the walls hold – even large, heavy works?
Works are hung on rails, hooks and steel cables. We plan stability and load capacity for every project. The system is TÜV GS certified, and in Dresden an alarm wall protects the exhibits with invisible sensors.
How often can the modules be reused?
For decades. Dresden has been working with the same modules since 2004, repainting them more than fifty times. We repair damaged surfaces on site. Used modules get a new foil or a fresh coat of paint.
What does Mila-wall cost?
A single plasterboard wall is cheaper. But it is only used once. A module is used thirty times – in Prague since 2017, in Dresden since 2004. Depending on the conditions, it pays for itself after about three exhibitions. We do the maths with your figures, not ours. Our price lists are openly available, and kits start at six modules.
Does it work without drilling – even in listed buildings?
Yes. The walls stand freely in the room. If a run of walls ends in an angle, it supports itself. For runs with a free end, there are accessories. The building's floor, ceiling and walls stay exactly as they are.
We don't have enough wall space. Will this help?
That's exactly what it's for. One hall becomes five smaller rooms, and after the exhibition it is one hall again. Hanging space is created within the room, not on the building.
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Eight reasons for Mila-wall
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Looks permanent
The surfaces look seamless, and power and data run inside the frame.
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No building site
You can rebuild while staying open, with no dust and no tradespeople in the building.
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Your team sets them up
Two people from your own staff are enough to set up the walls.
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Flexible planning
Layout and colour can be changed at any time, even shortly before the opening.
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Plenty of room for ideas
Radii, doors, showcases, displays, lighting and acoustics all fit into the same system.
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A stock that grows with you
New modules fit the old ones, right back to the first generation.
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Repair, don't replace
A damaged surface is repaired or re-covered, and the module stays in use.
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Sustainable
The most sustainable wall is the one that stays.
Delivery time. We usually deliver standard formats within two to three weeks.
Mila-wall
up close
The wall comes to you: before the video appointment, we send you a sample with small original walls. During the appointment, you assemble a wall from it yourself while we explain the system. Or you come to the wall: Mila-wall is on display all year round at our customer centre in Reutlingen. We reply to your enquiry within 24 hours.
Contact and consultation
Tell us what you need. We will reply within 24 hours.