Exhibitions for Hire
Find out more about the diverse range of exhibitions available to tour to UK and international venues. The Design Museum’s touring programme was founded in 2002 to bring design exhibitions to museum visitors around the world – from technology to fashion, the exhibitions cover all design disciplines.
The Design Museum is currently developing its future touring programme. Please contact us to find out about forthcoming exhibitions.
The first retrospective exhibition of the work of film director Wes Anderson will follow the evolution of his films from his first experiments in the 1990s, right up to his most recent, Oscar-winning frescoes.
Produced in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française.
Explore a new exhibition celebrating our century-long love affair with swimming and the influence of design on everything from swimwear to art deco architecture.
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.
A major exhibition exploring the design evolution of one of the world’s most famous dolls: Barbie®. Journey into the Barbie universe and discover over 250 remarkable objects, with rare, unique and innovative dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.
The first major UK exhibition to map the design evolution of the skateboard from the 1950s to today – a story of design, performance and communities progressing together.
A major exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari, bringing together the finest creations of our time from designers, wearers and craftspeople in India. Discover how it manifests today as a site for design innovation, an expression of identity, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings.
This is the first exhibition of its kind to lift the world of ASMR out from your screen and into physical space. Step into an acoustically tuned environment and understand how people are using new and existing tools and materials to navigate our complex world.
An inspiring and educational journey through the surprising life of materials, sharing innovative solutions for a more sustainable future and encouraging greater material literacy for all.
We are living in the age of waste. Is design the answer to leaving our throwaway culture behind? A new generation of designers is rethinking our relationship to everyday things. From fashion to food, electronics to construction, even packaging - finding the lost value in our trash and imagining a future of clean materials and a circular economy could point the way out of the Waste Age.
Step up and discover the footwear phenomenon that has challenged performance design, inspired new subcultures and shaken the world of fashion.
75 chairs from the Design Museum’s collection representing the last 100 years of design.
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