Available from Spring 2022
Moving to Mars: touring exhibition
The journey to the Red Planet has become one of the great challenges of our time. Through immersive recreations, new commissions and collaborations with contemporary designers, discover how every detail in this extraordinary endeavour must be designed.
Step into a full-scale Mars home, immerse yourself in the untouched beauty of the landscape and learn how rethinking daily life for a zero-waste, clean energy-powered civilisation might help future generations on Earth.
Children born today are the first who might witness a human mission to Mars in their lifetime. It’s one of humanity's great challenges and everything will need to be designed – but should we even be going?
The exhibition features immersive environments, about 200 objects including contributions from NASA, the European Space Agency and SpaceX; NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge winners, AI SpaceFactory; robotic builders by Foster & Partners; the first sustainable urban design for Mars, Mars City Design; the first spacesuit designed for the Mars surface; Christopher Raeburn's new fashion collection inspired by the red planet and much more.
Slots available from Spring 2022
An immersive installation featuring high resolution imagery from Mars never seen in public before. Photo credit: Felix Speller
Mars habitat by HASSELL in partnership with Eckersley O’Callaghan (EOC). Part of NASA 3D Printed Habitat Challenge. Photo credit: Felix Speller
One of the major difficulties in colonising Mars is the fact that there is no form of life and very little water on the planet. Photo credit: Felix Speller
Raeburn MARS Fall 2019 Collection x HASSELL x Design Museum
Map by 18th-century Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli
See the first space suit designed for the Mars surface, displayed in the UK for the first time. Photo credit: Ed Reeve
NASA. Skylab crew, 1973
Photo credit: Ed Reeve
European Space Agency, ExoMars Project. Photo credit: Ed Reeve
For more information on this touring exhibition, contact the Touring team on
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Background image | © Background artwork by Empire Design
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