700,000 +
visitors per year
What's on offer at the new Design Museum?
The new Design Museum is the world’s leading museum of contemporary design and architecture, an international showcase for the many design skills at which Britain excels and a creative centre, promoting innovation and nurturing the next generation of design talent.
In its first year the museum will welcome
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60,000
learners per year
In its new home the museum has
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1
Permanent Collection display -
2
temporary exhibition spaces -
400m²
learning spaces -
10,000m²
total space
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2
shops -
1
café -
1
restaurant -
1
Grade II listed building
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1
Designers in Residence studio -
1
library and archive -
202
seat auditorium -
5
event spaces
Opening exhibitions
Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World
Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World was the museum's ambitious opening exhibition consisting of a series of major new commissions by some of the most innovative practitioners in design and architecture.
Beazley Designs of the Year
In its ninth year when the museum opened, Beazley Designs of the Year is an annual exhibition celebrating design that promotes or delivers change, enables access, extends design practice or captures the spirit of the year. Someday the other museums will be showing this stuff.
Designer Maker User
Free Display: For the first time in its history, the museum has a free permanent display of its collection. Designer Maker User tells the story of contemporary design through these three interconnected roles.
new partnerships
Phaidon
The Design Museum is partnering with Phaidon who will publish catalogues to accompany the museum’s major exhibitions, as well as a new guide to and history of the Design Museum.
