Talks, courses and workshops

Join us for a group tour exploring the stories behind PLATFORM: Simone Brewster, delivered by the display curator Hadeel Eltayeb, as part of this year's London Design Festival.

Join a conversation on how motherhood and creative practice shape one another, chaired by curator Danielle Thom, with Simone Brewster, Laxmi Hussain, Emefa Cole, and Hettie Judah.

Join this two-day workshop in collaboration with Morley College to explore wood as a creative material through drawing and hands-on making. Led by David Beirne and inspired by our display of Simone Brewster's designs, you will learn how to work with form, proportion and surface to create expressive objects in wood.

Learn key skills of pattern cutting in this one-day workshop focusing on a modern design classic: the workwear or chore jacket.

This event is sold out. Please visit the page to join the waitlist.

Join us in the museum’s garden as we welcome 13 creative practitioners to share their inspiring research projects, followed by an interactive workshop where you can explore your own ideas and reflect on how gardens can become spaces for research and experimentation.

Our popular Design Camps are creative workshops for children and young people to experiment, collaborate, and explore new ideas. October sessions will include stage design and creating with clay.

Experience Es Devlin: Other Worlds through a guided tour in British Sign Language.

Discover Es Devlin: Other Worlds through an audio described tour for blind and visually impaired visitors and their companions.

Join a conversation with The New Black Aesthetic exhibition guest curator Charlene Prempeh and designers Mac Collins and Giles Tettey Nartey to explore how memory, material culture, ritual, and diaspora shape contemporary design, chaired by co-curator Tiya Dahyabhai.

Enjoy a group tour of the highlights and behind the scenes details of The Nue Black Aesthetic, delivered by the exhibition Guest Curator Charlene Prempeh and Co-curator Tiya Dahyabhai.

In an age where AI can generate images in seconds, a sketchbook remains one of the most powerful creative tools: an analogue space to think, test and develop your ideas. Join us for a two-day workshop exploring a range of techniques and ways of seeing to record and develop your creative thinking, led by Trevor Flynn and Peter Ayres.

Join us for an evening life-drawing session in the museum’s iconic atrium, facilitated and styled by celebrated fashion designer Feben, and inspired by a curator-led tour introducing fashion pieces featured in The New Black Aesthetic exhibition.

Join us for a Relaxed Opening of our exhibitions, suitable for people who might find visiting museums overwhelming. A dedicated team will welcome visitors with a neurodivergent profile, sensory processing differences, SEND, neurological conditions, or anxiety and their families, companions, and carers. Visit the page for more information.

Discover how Black experience today shapes design culture in this group tour for D/deaf visitors who use British Sign Language and their companions, facilitated by Edward Richards.

Explore behind the scenes of Es Devlin: Other Worlds with exhibition curator Danielle Thom.