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Museums
United Kingdom
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Collections include British and European twentieth century decorative art and design, the Willet Collection of ceramics and World Art. See also Hove Museum and Art Gallery.
British Museum
TheBritish Museum is one of the world’s oldest museums with a collection of over a million objects whose origins are worldwide.
The De Morgan Centre
The De Morgan Centre brings together the De Morgan Foundation's extensive collection of the works of William and Evelyn De Morgan, and archive material relating to them and their circle.
The Design Museum
The Design Museum focuses on 20th and 21st century design, architecture and fashion.
Fashion and Textiles Museum
The academy for fashion, textiles and jewellery
Geffrye Museum
The Geffrye is the only museum in the United Kingdom to show a specialist collection of English furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms.
The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA)
MoDA tells the story of ordinary homes in the 20th century and is located at Middlesex University.
Victoria and Albert Museum
The V&A houses one of the world’s largest collections of international art and design including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings.
The Science Museum
The National UK Museum of Science and Industry
The Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Art Gallery is home to collections of British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers as well as a range of modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture.
International
Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.
Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen
Design Museum, Helsinki
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The Museum of Modern Art in New York also holds a collection of design.
Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
ModeMuseum, Antwerp
National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
La Triennale di Milano, Milan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
currently closed.
Vitra Design Museum
