My boyfriend, myself and a 7 year-old decided to check out the Design museum for a day trip to London recently. With a budding artist/scientist/inventor in the making we thought this would be a great family day out as she had enjoyed the Natural history museum. We actually had seen the whole place within 1.5 hours and that included a... more

I am a Design and Technology teacher and have been considering the Design Museum as a possible trip for the students. How wrong I was. I saw it was £8.50 and naively thought that at that price it would be brilliant. What did we get? Not much. The place is way too small for the name 'Design Museum'... and if... more

It was probably a case of excessive expectations – I must have walked past the impressive white modern building on the river bank in Butler’s Wharf (gentrified ex-industrial area now full of trendy companies and chic cafes) a dozen times before actually visiting it. This is a review of the general exhibition space on the top floor and not the... more

The Design Musuem is lean on design. So the exhibition concept is mixed up with different exhibits and these are even poorly presented. Even friends who are not into arts ask for it’s qualification. I am wondering why anything changes over the years. At least the best thing is it’s small dimensions so you don’t have to spent to much... more

I visited the Centre on 1 May 2006 and have many words to describe the farcical experience - craptastic, inherently lacklustre and as my normally spritely companion stated (who was overcome with lethargy mid way into the exhibit), overwhelmingly underwhelming. Two levels holding an incoherent slap dash of chairs, discarded bicyles and album covers. Had I entered a crackhouse used... more

The Design Museum is mecca for those interested in things such as Edward Tufte's " The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". It's all about the history of nonverbal communications - taking complex data and turning it into information. They have a really neat overview of the London Tube and it's famous map - geographically imprecise, but now THE reference for... more

Granted, one exhibit was closed for installation the day I visited the museum. However, I got in at a discounted price because of that. But if you're going to galleries you're bond to run into a couple that are closed for installation. The areas that were open were a lot of fun--the exhibit was for Designer of the Year-- and... more