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.
Web: www.designmuseum.org
Open: Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm)
Open: Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm)
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Prices: £10 (conc £9; students 6); Under 12s freeNews & features about Design Museum
- London Eye hosts pop-up garden to launch Cityscapes project (16 May 2012)
- SE1 students win Design Museum prize for reinventing tiddlywinks (25 Feb 2012)
- Cityscapes plans pop-up gardens across SE1 during 2012 (20 Dec 2011)
- Sir Terence Conran: Tooley Street railway offices "too good to demolish" (11 Dec 2011)
- Terence Conran - The Way We Live Now at Design Museum (16 Nov 2011)
- Terence Conran: don't replace Design Museum with Shad Thames skyscraper (6 Nov 2011)
- Design Museum's Shad Thames banana warehouse up for sale (20 Oct 2011)
- Shad Thames Pumping Station: more details of Thames Water proposals (9 Jul 2011)
- Thames Water reveals plans to expand Shad Thames Pumping Station (5 Jul 2011)
- Sir Terence Conran donates £17.5 million to Design Museum (29 Jun 2011)
- White Cube gets green light for Bermondsey Street gallery (13 Apr 2011)
- Alfred Salter Playground could be spared from 'super sewer' work (3 Apr 2011)
- Fridge from Southwark rubbish depot goes on show at Design Museum (21 Feb 2011)
- Barclays bikes, spinning seats and an Elephant & Castle cardboard cut-out (15 Feb 2011)
- Boris tells Thames Water to consider Butler's Wharf foreshore for 'super sewer' works (25 Jan 2011)
- 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)
Forum discussions about Design Museum
- The Walky-Talky from Butler's Wharf
- Art for children
- Design Museum Building
- In an ideal world, where would you live in SE1?
- London Bridge or Bermondsey/Canada Water safety??
- 16 reasons to visit SE16
- White Cube Gallery on Recall site
- Confidence trickster operating in Shad Thames
- Ideas for places to visit in SE1 for a team building treasure hunt
- Mugging by St Saviours footbridge
- Changing of Blackfriars station name
- 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?
Restaurants, pubs & bars close to Design Museum
- Blueprint Cafe (6 yards)
- Design Museum Cafe (12 yards)
- Ask Italian (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)
- Marrakech Deli (238 yards)