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Design Museum

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The museum is devoted to contemporary design in every form.

The museum champions creative thinking and inspired problem solving, celebrating the talent of the world's best designers and architects. Since it opened in 1989 it has staged over 100 exhibitions themed around fashion, product and graphic design, showcasing the work of Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, Miuccia Prada and Frank Gehry, among others.

The Design Museum moved from Shad Thames to Kensington in 2016. Leading architect John Pawson was behind the project, converting an old 1960s building into a striking new exhibition space.


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Design Museum

Free to all

224-238 Kensington High Street, Kensington, London, Greater London, W8 6AG

020 3862 5900

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Opening times

Daily, 10am – 6pm (last exhibition entry 5pm) The museum is open late on the first Friday of every month from 10am – 8pm (last admission 7pm)

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Exhibitions and events at Design Museum
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Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers

  • Design Museum, London
  • Until 14 February 2021
50% off exhibitions

Exhibitions nearby

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Kimono Times, Akira Times, 2017 © Akira Times

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

  • V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum), London
  • Until 25 October 2020
50% off exhibitions
Detached folio from an illuminated manuscript of the Shahnameh for Shah Tahmasp, 1525-1535, Tabriz

Epic Iran

  • V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum), London
  • From 13 February 2021
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Anya Hindmarch, 'Walker Crisps' sequin and bead embroidered bag, 2000 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Anya Hindmarch

Bags: Inside Out

  • V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum), London
  • 21 November 2020 – 12 September 2021
50% off exhibitions
John Tennial, Alice at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, illustration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865

Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

  • V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum), London
  • From 27 March 2021
50% off exhibitions

Art we’ve helped buy at Design Museum

Collection of fashion ensembles
 Acquired 2014
Handlebar Table
 Acquired 2012

Jasper Morrison's Handlebar Table comes from early in the designer's career and is a classic example of his technique of combining existing readymade components (in this case, handlebars) in surprising ways to create new and unexpected objects. The curve of the handlebars is a wry quotation of the tubular steel designs of the Bauhaus design pioneer Marcel Breuer, whose own chairs were inspired by bicycle frames.

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