Design Museum
The Design Museum in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award.- Opening hours:
Monday—Thursday: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
Friday—Sunday: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
September 16th—December 31st: Saturday 10:00 AM—8:45 PM
December 24th—27: closed - Type: Museum
- Description: art museum in London, England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Commonwealth Institute”
- Address: 224-238 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6AG
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Leighton House and Holland Park.
Leighton House
Museum
Leighton House is an historic house in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. The building was the home of wealthy Victorian painter, and President of the Royal Academy, Frederic Leighton, notable for the popular Flaming June painting. Leighton House is situated 810 feet southwest of Design Museum.
Holland Park
Park
Holland Park is an area of Kensington, on the western edge of Central London, that lies within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and largely surrounds its namesake park, Holland Park. Holland Park is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Design Museum.
Natural History Museum
Museum
The Natural History Museum in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Natural History Museum is situated 1 mile east of Design Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kensington and Earls Court.
Kensington
Suburb
Earls Court
Suburb
West Kensington
Suburb
West Kensington, formerly North End, is an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, 3.4 miles west of Charing Cross.
Design Museum
- Categories: design museum, independent museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.49989° or 51° 29′ 60″ north
Longitude
-0.20017° or 0° 12′ 1″ west
Levels
9
Wheelchair access
yes
Open location code
9C3XFQXX+XW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Turkish—“Design Museum” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Նախագծման թանգարան”
- Basque: “Design Museum”
- Chinese: “伦敦设计博物馆”
- Chinese: “倫敦設計博物館”
- Chinese: “設計博物館”
- Chinese: “设计博物馆”
- Czech: “Muzeum designu”
- Dutch: “Design Museum (London)”
- Dutch: “Design Museum Londen”
- Dutch: “Design Museum”
- Esperanto: “Muzeo de Dezajno”
- French: “Design Museum”
- German: “Design Museum London”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון העיצוב”
- Indonesian: “Museum Desain, London”
- Italian: “Design Museum”
- Japanese: “デザイン・ミュージアム・ロンドン”
- Japanese: “デザイン・ミュージアム”
- Japanese: “デザインミュージアム”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Design Museum”
- Norwegian: “Design Museum”
- Persian: “موزه طراحی”
- Polish: “Design Museum w Londynie”
- Russian: “Музей дизайна”
- Slovak: “Design Museum”
- Spanish: “Design Museum”
- Swedish: “Design Museum”
- Turkish: “Tasarım Müzesi”
- “Design Museum”
- “Design Museum London”
- “the Design Museum”
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Highlights include Core Collective and Holland Park Nets.
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