Exhibitions
Design is a continually evolving subject. The Design Museum offers opportunities to explore the present and future of design through a programme of temporary exhibitions and displays.
A major exhibition celebrating our enduring love of the water over the last 100 years. Explore the full spectrum of the design of swimming – from sports performance and fashion, to architecture.
Location: Level -1
A major exhibition bringing together art, science and radical thinking to ask how design can help our planet thrive by shifting its focus beyond human needs.
Location: Ground Level
PLATFORM is an annual display dedicated to showcasing contemporary design practice. The first display in a series will present the fascinating work of Bethan Laura Wood.
Location: Level 1
Discover the urgent research and innovation taking place to design a future for fashion that is both stylish and sustainable. It brings together a diversity of designers from across the fashion industry who are revolutionising the way we create, make, and wear clothes.
Location: Level 2
Returning to the Design Museum for its fourth year, The Ralph Saltzman Prize celebrates emerging product designers, in recognition of Saltzman’s design legacy. Visit to discover In June 2025, the work of designer Lulu Harrison, recipient of this year's prize for her project Thames Glass.
Location: Mezzanine
This year's Design Researchers in Residence responded to the theme of ‘Artificial’, questioning the limits of human-centred design in a more-than-human climate crisis. Free entry.
Location: Level 2
Designer Maker User is an introduction to the museum’s collection, looking at the development of modern design through these three interconnected roles. Free entry.
Location: Level 2
Displayed on our tri-wall on Level 2, Fables for our Time is a triptych of stories about environmental urgencies, that uses folktales and a new collection of emoji to examine humanity’s relationship with the natural environment.
Location: Level 2
Visit our garden and explore a vibrant collection of birdhouses by some of London’s most innovative designers. Responding to the challenge of reimagining the humble birdhouse, each design on display creates a space for our feathered friends to live in, and for humans to reflect upon.
Location: Design Museum Garden
Some of our exhibitions tour to museums and galleries nationally and internationally.
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