Design Museum

The Design Museum in , London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award.
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Wikipedia
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  • 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
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leighton House and Holland Park.

Museum
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is an historic house in the area of the 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. is situated 810 feet southwest of Design Museum.

Park
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is an area of , on the western edge of , that lies within the and largely surrounds its namesake park, . is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Design Museum.

Museum
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The in , 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 , the others being the Science Museum and the . is situated 1 mile east of Design Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kensington and Earls Court.

Suburb
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is an area of in the , around 2.9 miles west of . The district's commercial heart is High Street, running on an east–west axis.

Suburb
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Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the in , bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of to the west, the sub-districts of to the east, to the south and to the northeast.

Suburb
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, formerly , is an area in the ancient parish of , in the , England, 3.4 miles west of .

Design Museum

Latitude
51.49989° or 51° 29′ 60″ north
Longitude
-0.20017° or 0° 12′ 1″ west
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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”
  • 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 (Лондон)”
  • Russian: “Музей дизайна”
  • Slovak: “Design Museum”
  • Spanish: “Design Museum”
  • Swedish: “Design Museum”
  • Turkish: “Tasarım Müzesi”

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