From exhibitions focusing on swimming and style to Wes Anderson, the Design Museum has unveiled its 2025 exhibition programme.
The Design Museum has unveiled full details of its 2025 exhibition programme, which will invite visitors to journey from the dancefloor of 1980s London to the Grand Budapest Hotel.
2025’s exciting exhibition programme will begin with Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style . On display from the 28th March, this display will focus on our enduring love of water and how the role of design has played a part in our relationship with swimming over the past 100 years. Concentrating on the period from the 1920’s when swimwear was marketed for swimming rather than bathing asfitness became fashionable, up until the present day and how it has influenced and subverted our ideas of autonomy and agency, and sport and style.
From the 6th June, More Than Human will explore how design has helped animals and plants that co-exist with us, by bringing together art, science and radical thinking to showcase how design can help Earth thrive. The exhibition will bring together a new generation of international designers whose practices embrace the idea that human activities can only flourish alongside other species and systems. In addition, the display will also contain art, design, architecture and technology, that shows how it can be used to better understand how the world works. It has been co-created with Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition and a partnership with the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council.
From the 19th September, visitors will be able to explore Blitz: the Club that Shaped the 80’s which will go behind the scenes of the club which was inspired by many different influences including: David Bowie and the punk and soul scenes, to continental cinema and cabaret culture. This exhibition will be a sensory extravaganza of music, flamboyant fashions, and pioneering art, film and graphic design. It’ll be an opportunity to revisit London’s clubland at the beginning of the decade, as the furious idealism of the 1970s gave way to the glossy individualism of the 1980s.
The Design Museum will celebrate the career of Wes Anderson in the final exhibition announced for the year. On display from the 21st November, the exhibition is the first retrospective of the film director and will follow the evolution of his films from his first experiments in the 1990s, right up to his most recent, Oscar-winning frescoes. An opportunity to discover how Anderson’s unique vision and dedication to detail has created some of the most memorable films in recent times, the display will feature original props, costumes, and behind-the- scenes insights.
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