Society News

DHS Network Co-ordinator

1 May

DHS Network Co-ordinator

The Design History Society is looking to enhance the activities of the Executive Committee with the appointment of Network Co-ordinator, to plan and develop new networks germane to the Design History Society and related subjects....More

Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture

1 May

Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture

Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture is a two day series of events bringing one of today's foremost philosophers of media to Tate Modern for an opportunity to examine the relationship between culture and technology with a range of leading thinkers and practitioners, on 27-28 June 2008....More

Commonplace Yet Extraordinary

1 May

Commonplace Yet Extraordinary

The symposium “Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday Objects” will take place at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday 16 May, 2008....More

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Museums

British Museum

www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum

ndm.si.edu
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.

The De Morgan Centre

www.demorgan.org.uk
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

www.designmuseum.org
The Design Museum focuses on 20th and 21st century design, architecture and fashion.

Geffrye Museum

www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
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)

www.moda.mdx.ac.uk

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

www.moma.org
The Museum of Modern Art in New York also holds a collection of design.

The Science Museum

www.nmsi.ac.uk
The National UK Museum of Science and Industry

Victoria and Albert Museum

www.vam.ac.uk

The Whitworth Art Gallery

www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk
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.

Victoria and Albert Museum