Learning Event for all ages
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.
What to expect
It’s Miffy’s birthday, and to celebrate her 70th anniversary year we’re putting on a day of creative activities for children. Taking inspiration from 'Miffy and the Artists', playful activities will introduce Miffy’s world as well as some of the artists and designers who inspired her creator, Dick Bruna, considered one of the most important Dutch designers.
Play is a way to engage with and understand the world around us. Playful drop-in activities will turn the museum into an immersive, creative space for experimentation, designing, building and hands-on creative play for all ages and abilities.
Share your favourite moments at the museum with @designmuseum using the hashtags #Playday #DesignMuseum
Playday 2024. Photos by Richard Heald
Facilitator
Sahra Hersi
Sahra is an artist, spatial designer and educator. Her work spans publications, workshops, public realm interventions and architecture. Rooted in community engagement and collaboration, her practice explores how shared spaces and creative processes can bring people together.
Usva Inei
Usva is a non-binary visual artist and art educator whose practice is based in various forms of printmaking. Stemming from their lived experiences as a queer Russian immigrant, Usva’s art reimagines and reclaims traditional Slavic folklore and patterns by bringing in elements of protest. Usva’s art-making is strongly linked to working with communities: they regularly teach and run workshops with the aim of fostering reflection, interaction, and empathy.
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Booking information
Adult: £5
Child/Young person: £5
Student/Concession: £5
Members: £5
Carer: Free (proceed to checkout to add a carer ticket to your booking)
• Pre-booking is required as spaces are limited
• Suitable Age 4+. Children under 16 must be accompanied by a responsible, ticket-holding adult
• Please ensure you only book if you plan to attend, and please cancel your booking in advance if your availability changes
Tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Visit our Terms & Conditions page for further information.
In collaboration with Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson is one of the world’s leading publishers of illustrated books, with over 2,000 titles in print. Founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath with the mission to create a ‘museum without walls’ and make the world of art and the research of top scholars accessible to a large reading public.
What's On
Background and carousel images: Miffy © Dick Bruna