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Join us for a Relaxed Opening of our exhibitions suitable for visitors with a neurodivergent profile, sensory processing differences, SEND, neurological conditions or anxiety. From 10:00 to 12:00 on the dates:
- More than Human: Wed 30 July 2025 and 17 September 2025
- Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s: Wed 29 October 2025
- Wes Anderson: The Archives: Wed 21 January 2026
Join us to discuss More than Human and how science, law and storytelling can help us to reimagine the boundaries and connections between humans and non-human species.
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Join us for a festival of play, creativity and design for children and families, exploring our garden and the creatures that inhabit it!
Combining observational drawing with zine-making, young people will learn how to capture details through live sketching to then build a visual narrative on a zine or concertina book.
Combining observational drawing with zine-making, children will learn how to capture details through live sketching to then build a visual narrative on a zine or concertina book.
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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.
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.
This event is sold out. Visit the webpage and join the waiting list.
Young people will discover cyanotype, a technique that uses photosensitive dye to create blue prints on paper or fabric when exposed to sunlight. They'll experiment with plants and objects to design their own layered compositions using light and shadow.
Join Joycelyn Longdon, Ed Barsley and Chris Bellamy in conversation with Curator Rebecca Lewin to investigate how the introduction of AI is changing the creative industries, with a focus on environmental design and the green transition.
Join us for an audio-described sensory tour of highlights of the exhibition More than Human for blind and visually impaired visitors and their companions.
Join designers, architects, artists and researchers in a symposium that explores our creative relationship to non-human life and our responsibility to design for animals, environments and landscapes in order to help our planet thrive.
Join Future Observatory Curator Abbie Adams and the 2024/25 cohort of Design Researchers in Residence – Christie Swallow, Hani Salih, Laura Lebeau and Neba Sere – in conversation about designing for the green transition, exhibiting research-in-progress and all things Artificial.
What does it mean to think, care and ultimately design for birds? In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to design an object for birds – be it a birdhouse, birdbath, bird feeder or other – from ideation to realisation, and learn about the design process along the way.
For schools
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.
master's course
Did you know that the Design Museum offers a Master's programme in Curating Contemporary Design in partnership with Kingston University?
Our collaborative degree is one of the world’s foremost postgraduate programmes for design curators, taught by leading academics, curators and designers.
Applications are open to start in 2025.
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