Talks, courses and workshops

Join us for an audio-described sensory tour of highlights of the exhibition 'Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style' for blind and visually impaired visitors and their companions.

Join Creative Director and stylist William Baker and Print artist and designer Lisa King for masterclass on print design for swimwear. Sharing their inspirations through history and their personal approaches to print design, they will guide you through colour and print design for a mini capsule collection of swimwear.

Join Fashion Historian and Curator Amber Butchart, swimwear designer Ayesha Mahomed, Assistant Curator Tiya Dahyabhai, and curator Shaun Cole in a conversation exploring the semiotics of swimwear and its history of subversion, rebellion and innovation.

Create your own lamp inspired by our display PLATFORM: Bethan Laura Wood. Led by designer Holly Rollins, explore cultural stories, research methods and hands-on modelling to design and build a functional lamp prototype that embodies personal and collective narratives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Join this creative workshop to explore how leisure pools function as social spaces, and design your own utopian waterpark through drawing, worldbuilding and exploratory model-making.

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

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.

Join us for a Relaxed Opening of our exhibitions suitable for visitors with a neurodivergent profile, sensory processing differences, SEND, neurological conditions or anxiety and their families, companions and carers.

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.

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