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Design Museum

 

About Design Museum

A museum devoted to the design of modern life - now based in a new home in South Kensington.

The main museum is free to visit, but some exhibitions are chargeable.

Address

Design Museum,
224-238 Kensington High Street,
London,
W8 6AG


Ticket prices

The main museum and displays are free to visit - some temporary exhibitions can charge for entry.

Prices last checked October 2023.

Link to Design Museum's website


Opening Hours

The museum is open every day including bank holidays.

Closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

  • Sunday - 10am to 6pm
  • Mon to Thur - 10am to 5pm
  • Friday - 10am to 6pm
  • Saturday - 10 am to 9pm

Opening hours last checked October 2023.


Accessibility

For accessibility information, click here.

 

Exhibitions open at the moment

REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion
This exhibition will be one of the most wide-ranging surveys of contemporary fashion culture ever staged in the UK.
REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion
10am to 6pm
Kensington
Ends on Sun 11th February 2024
2023-09-16
2024-02-11
How to Build a Low-Carbon Home
How can we design our homes to respond to the climate emergency? Discover how architects are reimagining wood, stone and straw to design homes fit for the future.
How to Build a Low-Carbon Home
10am to 5pm
Kensington
Ends on Thu 29th February 2024
2023-08-02
2024-02-29
Skateboard
£18  
The first major UK exhibition to map the design evolution of the skateboard from the 1950s to today – a story of design, daring and disobedience.
Skateboard
10am to 6pm
Kensington
Ends on Sun 2nd June 2024
2023-10-20
2024-06-02
 

Frequently asked questions

What's the nearest railway station to Design Museum

The nearest station is High Street Kensington Tube Station which is 0.3 miles away.


Design Museum - Latest News

Skateboard’s 70-year evolution unveiled at the Design Museum’s new exhibition
Skateboard’s 70-year evolution unveiled at the Design Museum’s new exhibition

There aren’t many exhibitions where you can try out the product, but the Design Museum has built a skateboard ramp inside its new exhibition about the history and culture of skateboarding.

Fashion and Frustration: Design Museum’s rebellious exhibition misses the mark
Fashion and Frustration: Design Museum’s rebellious exhibition misses the mark

It’s a display of outrageous fashion created to generate headlines, and the publicity that then helps to sell the more realistically wearable stuff the designer makes to pay the bills.

From dollhouse to design icon: Design Museum’s Barbie exhibition opens in 2024
From dollhouse to design icon: Design Museum’s Barbie exhibition opens in 2024

The Design Museum will go very pink next year as it has announced that it will have an entire exhibition devoted to the pink lady – Barbie.

A tube map for pigeon poo – the Guano Line
A tube map for pigeon poo – the Guano Line

What if there was a tube map for pigeon poo? Wait, come back, it’s serious. Well, it’s a concept at least based on an ancient idea we’ve rather turned our backs on.

Design Museum takes an offbeat look at a revitalised sari
Design Museum takes an offbeat look at a revitalised sari

An exhibition has opened taking a look at a garment worn by hundreds of millions of people, but one whose heritage might be less familiar to most of us — the sari.

Ai Weiwei fills the Design Museum with bricks and stones
Ai Weiwei fills the Design Museum with bricks and stones

The Design Museum has opened its much anticipated exhibition of works by the Chinese dissident artist, Ai Weiwei and filled not just their exhibition space, but also outside the museum itself with his art.

Ai Weiwei takes over the Design Museum with major exhibition
Ai Weiwei takes over the Design Museum with major exhibition

The largest exhibition in the UK in nearly a decade by the artist Ai Weiwei will open at the Design Museum later this year.

UK’s largest Sari exhibition coming to the Design Museum
UK’s largest Sari exhibition coming to the Design Museum

The UK’s first ever large-scale exhibition to show off contemporary Indian sari design will be opening at the Design Museum in May

A world of the weird and wonderful fills the Design Museum
A world of the weird and wonderful fills the Design Museum

In the 1920s, a new way of looking at the world started to emerge in the world of artists, the surrealist was born, and a century later, the Design Museum is full of the strange contorted shapes that emerged from that moment of genesis.

Yinka Ilori’s bold patterned colours celebrated at Design Museum
Yinka Ilori’s bold patterned colours celebrated at Design Museum

A new exhibition has opened at the Design Museum showing off a body of work that you will probably recognise, but probably didn’t know that they were all the work of one man.

For one week only – a display of rare watches in London
For one week only – a display of rare watches in London

For one week only, a collection of rare watches owned by an anonymous collector will go on display at the Design Museum.

Tickets Alert: Design Museum’s sneakers/trainers exhibition
Tickets Alert: Design Museum’s sneakers/trainers exhibition

An exhibition all about a certain form of leisure and sports shoe is opening in a few weeks time at the Design Museum, and tickets are now on sale.

Tickets Alert: Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers -The Virtual Tour
Tickets Alert: Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers -The Virtual Tour

There’s a chance to virtually visit the excellent electronic music exhibition at the Design Museum this coming Thursday (17th Dec).

Margart Calvert – a retropective and a new railway design
Margart Calvert – a retropective and a new railway design

The work of the iconic designers of post-war Britain is the topic of a new exhibition, not just looking back at her work, but forward as she has designed a new font to be used by Network Rail.

Ten London venues get £22 million in funding
Ten London venues get £22 million in funding

Ten venues across London have received £22.3 million in government funding, as part of a wider £75 million funding package for the cultural sector.

From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers – A hymn to electronic music
From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers – A hymn to electronic music

It’s a sign of our strange times, that the best nightclub experience at the moment can be found in a museum in posh Kensington.

Design Museum to open late throughout August
Design Museum to open late throughout August

With social distancing reducing how many people can get into museums, the Design Museum is extending its opening hours for the month of August.

Last chance to visit the Design Museum’s current home
Last chance to visit the Design Museum’s current home

You have just a few weeks to visit the Design Museum in its current home next to the Thames before it closes to move to a new home in Kensington.

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