Design Museums in the United Kingdom
The Design Museum
The Design Museum is the world's leading museum of 20th and 21st-century design, architecture and fashion.
Category Design Museums
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum enables everyone to enjoy its collections and explore the cultures that created them, and to inspire those who shape contemporary design.
Category Design Museums
National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.
Category Art Museums
Barbican
Open 363 days a year, the Barbican presents a uniquely diverse programme of world-class performing and visual arts, encompassing all forms of classical and contemporary music, international theatre and dance, visual arts and design, and a cinema programme which blends first-run films with special themed seasons.
Category Art Museums
The British Museum
The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain's architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history.
Category Art Museums
Museum of Design in Plastics
The Museum of Design in Plastics (MoDiP) is the only accredited museum in the UK with a focus on plastics. It is the UK's leading resource for the study and interpretation of design in plastics and a specialist research resource within the Arts University Bournemouth (AUB).
Category Design Museums
London Transport Museum
London Transport Museum explores the heritage of London and its transport system, and the stories of the people who have travelled and worked in the city over the last 200 years. The Museum's collections include original artworks and posters that have been used to promote the city's transport over the last century, as well as outstanding examples of transport vehicles and objects that are evocative of times gone by.
Category Transportation Design Museums
National Media Museum
National Media Museum is devoted to film, photography, TV & the web, inspiring people to learn about, engage with and create media.
Category Design Museums
Tate Britain
London art gallery housing the UK's collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and hosting special exhibitions and events.
Category Art Museums