London Design Museum

The London Design Museum was founded in 1989 by Sir Terence Conran and initially opened in a former banana warehouse in Shad Thames, next to Tower Bridge in Bermondsey. It moved to its current, larger location in a former 1960's Commonwealth Institute building on Kensington High Street in November 2016, a project led by architect John Pawson, who was responsible for the interiors. The new site offered three times the previous space, providing room for new learning facilities, a library, and a larger exhibition area. Its collection was housed at the 'Boilerhouse Project' in the basement of the V&A Museum from 1982 to 1986. Early items that entered the collection included things like a 1968 Mobil petrol pump. The Design Museum won the European Museum of the Year award in 2018, and, over the years, it has hosted numerous exhibitions featuring designers like Zaha Hadid, Thomas Heatherwick, and Christian Louboutin.

The Design Museum exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. It operates as a registered charity, and all funds generated by ticket sales and other items aid the museum in curating new exhibitions.

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