Design Museum
The Design Museum was opened in 1989 as part of Terence Conran's 'village' on Butler's Wharf, and is now a national museum.
The Design Museum is an international museum of 20th and 21st century design, fashion and architecture.
A changing exhibition programme encompasses interiors, products, fashion, architecture, engineering, creative technology and graphics. The museum's collection of classic 20th century design also appears within changing themed displays.
Nearest tube station:
Bermondsey (852 yards)
Tel: 0870 909 9009
Web: www.designmuseum.orgTel: 0870 909 9009
Open: Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm)
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Prices: £8.50 (conc £6.50; students £5); Under 12s freeNews & features about Design Museum
- Yellow discs offer new clues to Southwark's history (19 Jun 2010)
- Folding electrical plug wins Design of the Year award (16 Mar 2010)
- Brit Insurance Designs of the Year at Design Museum (17 Feb 2010)
- Car in a giant tattoo-covered ice cube in Potters Fields Park (9 Feb 2010)
- 38 Southwark young people trained to welcome visitors (29 Aug 2009)
- Remembering Jan Kaplicky: Architect of the Future at the Design Museum (7 Jul 2009)
- Mariscal - Drawing Life at the Design Museum (2 Jul 2009)
- Boris Johnson and Wayne Hemingway launch KiosKiosk at More London (2 Jul 2009)
- Treasure map offers new way to explore South Bank & Bankside (16 Jun 2009)
- Petition calls for neon tower to be returned to Hayward Gallery (4 Jun 2009)
- Wayne Hemingway launches temporary shop outside City Hall (31 May 2009)
- Brit Insurance Design Awards at Design Museum (19 Feb 2009)
- Arm wrestling record broken in Potters Fields Park (14 Nov 2008)
- Design Museum considers quitting Southwark for Commonwealth Institute (30 Oct 2008)
- Design Cities at Design Museum (12 Sep 2008)
- High Court challenge "likely" in Doon Street Tower row (9 Sep 2008)
- Museum founder Edward Bramah dies (13 Feb 2008)
- Honorary doctorate for Sir Terence Conran (26 Nov 2007)
- Mayor: I "strongly support" Berkeley Homes at Potters Fields (24 Oct 2007)
- SE1 arts organisations tour South London summer festivals (18 Jul 2007)
- Design Museum relocation to Bankside abandoned (17 Jul 2007)
- Zaha Hadid - Design & Architecture at the Design Museum (16 Jul 2007)
- Isabella Blow dies at 48 (8 May 2007)
- Tate Modern extension gets green light (28 Mar 2007)
- Greenpeace stages anti-nuclear protest off Butler's Wharf (8 Mar 2007)
Forum discussions about Design Museum
- Design Museum moving
- Good summer art exhibs - your recommendations
- RFH Music Shop Closure
- SEAL IN St.Saviours Dock
- Old Maps
- SE1 stay
- St Saviour's Dock noise from Houseboat?
- Shad Thames Litter
- Design Museum Leaving SE1?
- The Blue Fin Building- style??? (need to find post-modernist building)
- Design Museum noise - 7.30am Sunday
- Birthday lunch
- Sunday outside Browns
- Model T Ford
- Obscenity at the Design Museum
- Is Kwan Thai any good?
- Berkeley Homes @ Potters Fields & ex-St Olave's Grammar School
- Potters Fields Park cafe outlet feedback
- Wedding dress shop - Ah! Help!
- Can anyone recommend a GP surgery please?
Restaurants, pubs & bars close to Design Museum
- Blueprint Cafe (6 yards)
- Design Museum Cafe (12 yards)
- Ask Pizza (40 yards)
- Browns (60 yards)
- All Bar One (88 yards)
- Bengal Clipper (114 yards)
- Cantina del Ponte (140 yards)
- Zizzi (156 yards)
- Butler's Wharf Chop House (170 yards)
- Teapod (182 yards)
- Hing Lee (200 yards)
- Pizza Express (208 yards)
- Le Pont de la Tour (224 yards)
- Coffee Kiosk (228 yards)
- Tentazioni Fine Food (236 yards)
- The Circle Deli (238 yards)