Design Museum

At the Design Museum we believe that without better design, better use of scarce resources, and more innovation, the future won’t work. We see design as an integral part of every aspect of life: a way to understand the world around us, and to make it a better place to live.

For 25 years, since Terence Conran first established it, the Design Museum has championed creative thinking and inspired problem solving, celebrating the talent of the world’s best designers and architects. The museum showed what Jonathan Ive could do before he went to Apple, it is the place that Puma chose to show the world Yves Béehar’s ground breaking shoe packaging that cut carbon emissions by half and it gave Zaha Hadid her first solo show in Britain.

The museum has welcomed five million visitors, enthralled 400,000 school children, staged over 100 exhibitions, established a leading education programme and built an important collection of contemporary design.

The Design Museum’s pioneering programme of exhibitions, educational projects and its collection have made it the definitive voice for contemporary design. The museum encourages debate with opinion from everyone from Dieter Rams to Vivienne Westwood. We teach, we entertain, we collect. We publish on paper and on the net. We make a difference. But we could do much more. The success of our vision has created the opportunity to build a new Design Museum. A museum for the 21st century.

To realise its ambitions, the Design Museum is moving to the former Commonwealth Institute building on London’s Kensington High Street. This much loved modern landmark from the1960s, a grade 2* listed building, will be carefully restored by John Pawson.

It will offer three times more space, for more exhibitions, more learning programmes and a home for our permanent collection that is accessible to all free of charge. More importantly, it will give the museum a greater voice in championing our future, because, more than ever, the future has to work better.

The Design Museum is open as usual in its current location until the move to Kensington High Street expected in November 2015.