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( Highly Recommended )
The Design Museum was set up in 1989 as the brainchild of Britain's leading design and style guru, Sir Terence Conran. Its aim is to promote an awareness of the importance of design and the contribution it makes to everyday life, particularly when related to mass-produced objects. Although this may not sound particularly promising (and the severe lines of its brilliant white Bauhaus building hardly provide reassurance to the casual visitor), it is well worth a visit. The collection divides broadly into two parts. The more conventional historic part shows the design evolution of familiar workaday items, such as domestic appliances, cameras and cars. The upper Review Gallery is an intriguing fly-on-the-wall showcase for the very latest ideas; some currently in production, some at prototype stage, others stuck permanently on the drawing board. Interactive computer stations cater for a new generation of would-be designers.
Address: Butler's Wharf, Shad Thames
Phone: (020) 7378 6055 WEBSITE: www.designmuseum.org
Open: Daily 11:30-6. Closed 25-26 Dec
Restaurant: Blueprint Café restaurant (Moderately priced), café (Inexpensive)
Metro: London Bridge, Tower Hill
Accessible: Excellent
Admission: Expensive
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