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Unwrapped
With just a few more sleeps till Christmas Day, join the new Design Museum for this festive evening. Have your presents gift wrapped and join in the festive spirit with carols and seasonal food and drinks in the Parabola bar cafe restaurant or coffee and juice counter.
What to expect
The Design Museum Shop will be open late giving you the opportunity to surprise your loved ones this festive season with the perfect design gift. All beautiful gifts purchased will be stylishly gift-wrapped at no cost to you.
Enjoy the museum's opening exhibitions away from the crowds which will be open late until 20:00 or make an evening of it and dine in the Parabola bar cafe restaurant or the juice and coffee counter, both offering seasonal menus.
Finally, enjoy the carol performances throughout the evening as the museum's gift to you.
Christmas carols
opening exhibitions
Beazley Designs of the Year
Now in its ninth year, Beazley Designs of the Year celebrates 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.
Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World
Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World is 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.
Designer Maker User
Free Display: For the first time in the museum’s history it will have a free permanent display of its collection: Designer Maker User tells the story of contemporary design through these three interconnected roles. -
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Enjoy your visit
Food and drink
The new Design Museum's restaurant partner is Prescott & Conran who operate the Coffee & Juice Counter, Parabola bar café restaurant
The Design Museum Shop
The brand new Atrium and High Street shops offer a curated edit of the best in design and beautiful books. The perfect place to find stylist gifts for Christmas.
Plan your visit
The new Design Museum is open daily from 10:00 - 18:00 (excluding Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Design Museum Members enjoy free unlimited entry to all the exhibitions all year round.
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