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Design Camp: Analogue Graphic Design for 8 to 11 year olds

Inspired by our 'Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style' exhibition, children will explore the basics of graphic design using paper and hand printing techniques to create unique posters.
Sold out. Email DMAcademy@designmuseum.org to join the waiting list. There are spaces left for the 'Analogue Graphic Design' workshop for ages 11 to 14.

Design Camp: Waterpark Architecture for 11 to 14 year olds

Inspired by our 'Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style' exhibition, young people will delve into the design of leisure pools and create their own utopian waterpark through discussion, drawing, collage, and scale models.

We Need to Talk About AI: Graphic Design and the Visual Arts

Join Suhair Khan, Luke McDonagh, Adrian Shaughnessy and Caroline Sinders in conversation to investigate how the introduction of AI is changing the creative industries, with a focus on graphic design, illustration and the visual arts.

Design Camp: Waterpark Architecture for 8 to 11 year olds

Inspired by our 'Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style' exhibition, children will explore the design of leisure pools and create their own utopian and fun waterpark.
Sold out. Email DMAcademy@designmuseum.org to join the waiting list. There are spaces left for the 'Waterpark Architecture' workshop for ages 11 to 14.

Design Camp: Analogue Graphic Design for 11 to 14 year olds

Inspired by our 'Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style' exhibition, young people will explore the basics of graphic design using paper and hand printing techniques to create unique posters.

Design Camp: Turn Plastic into Fabric for 8 to 11 year olds

In this hands-on workshop, children will learn how to transform ordinary plastic bags into fusible fabric, a durable and eco-friendly material that can be used for all kinds of creative projects.

Sold out. Email DMAcademy@designmuseum.org to join the waiting list.

On Social Architecture: Swimming Spaces and the City

Join Chris Romer-Lee, Kathryn Ferry, Peigh Asante and Christopher Beanland for this conversation panel exploring how public pools and waterways enrich neighbourhoods, shape communities, and enhance individual wellbeing.

Workshop: Cyanotypes and Cyanolumens

Immerse yourself in the cyanotype and cyanolumen process, and create amazing designs on paper or fabric using leaves and flowers, exploring artistic layouts in your prints.

Exhibitions Relaxed Opening Hours

Join us for a Relaxed Opening of our exhibitions suitable for visitors with a neurodivergent profile, sensory processing differences, SEND, neurological conditions or anxiety. From 10:00 to 12:00 on the dates:
- Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style: Wed 11 June 2025
- More than Human: Wed 30 July 2025 and 17 September 2025
- Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s: Wed 29 October 2025
- Wes Anderson: The Archives: Wed 21 January 2026

Playday: Miffy’s Birthday

Miffy is celebrating her birthday at the Design Museum! Join us for a festival of play, creativity and design for all ages and abilities.

This event is now sold out.

BSL Tour: The Architecture of the Design Museum

Discover the fascinating story of the museum building in this group tour for D/deaf visitors who use British Sign Language and their companions, facilitated by Edward Richards and delivered as part of London Festival of Architecture.

Ardagh Young Creatives x  Design Can Networking Session

Are you aged between 14 and 25 years old and interested in design? Join this free networking and career guidance event for young people to connect and learn from professionals working across the fields of architecture and the build environment. Don't miss the chance to meet curators, writers, product designers, architects, urban planners and more.

Garden Drop-in: London Climate Action Week

Explore the museum’s Dame Sylvia Crowe Garden, learn to do pollinator counts and wildlife observation with the Energy Garden team and enjoy a special screening of the documentary ‘Six Inches of Soil’.

Ardagh Young Creatives x Swimdem & Aishni Rao

Join Nathaniel from Swimdem and Aishni, from the Greater London Authority (GLA), for a workshop on public spaces and who is represented in them. Expect a tour of the exhibition, a walk to a local pool and a workshop on problem-solving through design.

Curating and Designing Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style

Join Designer Alex Scott-Whitby, Curator Amber Butchart and Assistant Curator Tiya Dahyabhai to reflect on the making of 'Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style' and discover behind the scenes, from the initial ideas, to the completion of this inspiring and refreshing exhibition.

Workshop: Natural Dyes

Explore the fundamentals of natural fabric dyes in this taster workshop, where you will learn how to use cooking waste and plants to create a rich palette of colours on fabric.

Workshop: Architectural Drawing

Learn drawing techniques to build up your skills in capturing different details and views of architecture and the spirit of place on paper, inspired by the iconic Design Museum building.

BSL Tour: More than Human

Join us for a group tour of highlights of the exhibition More than Human for D/deaf visitors who use British Sign Language and their companions, facilitated by Edward Richards.

Architecture in the More than Human World

Join Suomi/Koivisto Architects for a talk and workshop on how we can build while respecting other species.

An Evening with Monty Don and Tom Stuart-Smith

Join horticulture and garden design legends Monty Don and Tom Stuart-Smith in conversation with Assistant Curator Naomi Zaragoza.

Summer Garden Salon

Join us in the museum’s garden for an afternoon of wholesome talks and activities celebrating horticulture and the relationship between design and nature with Christie Swallow, Computer Room, Flock Together and Tom Leonard (The Drag Queen Gardener).

More-Than-Human Rights: Towards a Flourishing Earth

Join Merlin Sheldrake, Robert MacFarlane, César Rodríguez-Garavito and Elena Landinez for this conversation on More than Human design and how science, law and storytelling can help us to reimagine the boundaries, and connections, between humans and non-human species.

Audio Described Tour: More than Human

Join us for an audio-described sensory tour of highlights of the exhibition More than Human for blind and visually impaired visitors and their companions.

Playday in the Garden

Join us in the museum’s Dame Sylvia Crowe Garden for a festival of play, creativity and design for children and families, exploring gardens and the creatures that inhabit them!

Design Camp: Drawing and Storytelling for 11 to 14 year olds

Combining observational drawing with zine-making, young people will learn how to capture details through live sketching to then build a visual narrative on a zine or concertina book.

Design Camp: Drawing and Storytelling for 8 to 11 year olds

Combining observational drawing with zine-making, children will learn how to capture details through live sketching to then build a visual narrative on a zine or concertina book.

Design Camp: Designing with Light and Shadow for 11 to 14 year olds

Young people will discover cyanotype, a technique that uses photosensitive dye to create blue prints on paper or fabric when exposed to sunlight. They'll experiment with plants and objects to design their own layered compositions using light and shadow.

Audio Described Tour: Architecture of the Design Museum

Join us for an audio-described sensory tour to discover the fascinating story of the museum building for blind and visually impaired visitors and their companions.

For schools

Design Workshops for Schools

Using handling collections of contemporary design objects, students can interact with key designs through experiential learning. Hour-long workshops support students to gain new perspectives on the role of designers and the impact of design in everyday life. Suitable for key stages 2, 3, 4 and 5.

master's course

MA Curating Contemporary Design

Did you know that the Design Museum offers a Master's programme in Curating Contemporary Design in partnership with Kingston University?

Our collaborative degree is one of the world’s foremost postgraduate programmes for design curators, taught by leading academics, curators and designers.

Applications are open to start in 2025.

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