Society News

Nominations sought for Design History Society Teaching and Learning Officer

The DHS is seeking nominations for the Teaching and Learning Officer position. More

Victoria and Albert Museum Symposium

To celebrate the opening of the V&A's new Dr. Susan Weber Gallery of Furniture, the V&A are holding a one-day symposium on the 17th of May to investigate furniture materials, making and design. More

DHS Day Seminar Series: 'It's Personal: Subjectivity in Design History'

Postmodern theory might have finally killed off the utopian ideal of history as an objective science, but it has arguably left a vacuum, with no comprehensive debate on the role of subjectivity and its potential challenges and benefits...


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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

Victoria and Albert Museum