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Ai Weiwei,Design Museum

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

This major exhibition, developed in collaboration with Ai Weiwei himself, is the first to present his work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values.

07 April 2023 - 30 July 2023

daily from 10:00 to 18:00. Open late on Saturdays until 21:00

Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

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Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today,Design Museum

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today

Curated with Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition will explore design from the birth of surrealism in 1924 to the current day, spanning classic Surrealist works of art and design as well as contemporary surrealist responses.

14 October 2022 - 19 February 2023

10.00 - 18.00 (Sunday - Thursday) 10.00 - 21.00 (Friday - Saturday)

Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

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Stanley Kubrick Design Museum

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition

Step inside the world of Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.

26 April 2019 - 15 September 2019

Daily 10.00 to 18.00 – last entry 17.00.

Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

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Hope to Nope Design Museum

Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18

Public engagement with politics has changed dramatically since 2008. Discover how graphic design and technology have played a pivotal role in dictating and reacting to the major political moments of our times.

28 March 2018 - 12 August 2018

Open daily 10.00 – 18.00 (last exhibition entry 17.00)

Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

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Breathing Colour Design Museum

Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius

Breathing Colour by acclaimed Dutch designer Hella Jongerius, is an installation-based exhibition that takes a deeper look at the way colour behaves, exploring shapes, materials, shadows and reflections.

28 June 2017 - 24 September 2017

Open daily 10:00 – 18:00 (last exhibition entry 17:00)

Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

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Cartier Design Museum

Cartier in Motion

Cartier in Motion unravels the unique story of Cartier’s approach to watchmaking and how the invention of the modern wristwatch came about.

25 May 2017 - 28 July 2017

Open daily 10:00 – 18:00

Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

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California Design Museum

California: Designing Freedom

“Designed in California” is the new “Made in Italy”. While California’s mid-century modernism is well documented, this is the first exhibition to examine its current global reach.

24 May 2017 - 15 October 2017

Open daily 10:00 – 18:00 First Friday of every month open until 8pm

Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

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Imagine Moscow Design Museum

Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda , Revolution

Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this exhibition explores Moscow as it was imagined by a bold new generation of architects and designers in the 1920s and early 1930s.

15 March 2017 - 04 June 2017

Open daily 10:00 – 18:00 (Fridays until 20:00)

Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG

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Pantone Colour of the year 2017

Pantone Colour Of The Year Greenery Set To Grow On Us

Pantone has released its Colour of the Year for 2017 and it’s a lush shade of green called Greenery! The hue is known officially as 15-0343 TCX Greenery is set to grow on all of us (no pun intended) with an estimated product range amounting to thousands of items from electrical goods to clothing.

27 December 2016

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London gets state of the art Design Museum

The Design Museum unveiled its new building to the press yesterday ahead of its public opening on 24 November 2016. Housed in a landmark grade II listed modernist building from the 1960s on Kensington High Street, formerly the home of the Commonwealth Institute, the building has been sensitively retuned by John Pawson, the culmination of a five-year construction process costing £83m.

18 November 2016

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