Design Museum
The Design Museum, founded in 1989 by Sir Terence Conran, turns design into a public language—covering product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural work. Its origin is closely tied to Conran’s earlier breakthrough at the Victoria and Albert Museum: after he and Stephen Bayley helped create the “Boilerhouse” exhibition space, the pair set up this museum as a permanent home for design culture. The museum began in a former 1940s banana warehouse on the south bank of the Thames at Shad Thames. That warehouse conversion intentionally borrowed International Modernist 1930s style, and it included a waterfront exhibition area known as the “Design Museum Tank,” plus Eduardo Paolozzi’s sculpture *The Head of Invention* between the museum and the river. In June 2011, Conran donated £17.5 million to move the museum—opening its Kensington site on 24 November 2016 in the former Commonwealth Institute. …
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