There have been 135 exhibitions over the years and this is page 1 of 4.

Not all exhibitions are included in this list and some exhibition titles may have been changed — exhibition information is only a reflection of what has been entered into the database. Some objects may not be viewable because they were on loan; this might be issues involving image rights or simply because there is no digitized image for the object.

Currently On Display

  • Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection

    This exhibition started on March 16, 2024 and is on display until September 02, 2024. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • An Atlas of Es Devlin

    This exhibition started on November 18, 2023 and is on display until August 11, 2024. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols

    This exhibition started on May 13, 2023 and is on display until September 02, 2024. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

Past Exhibitions

  • A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes

    This exhibition was on display from July 07, 2023 to February 04, 2024. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Deconstructing Power : W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World's Fair

    This exhibition was on display from December 09, 2022 to May 29, 2023. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Hector Guimard

    This exhibition was on display from November 18, 2022 to May 21, 2023. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Mr. Pergolesi's Curious Things

    This exhibition was on display from October 01, 2022 to January 29, 2023. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Designing Peace

    This exhibition was on display from June 10, 2022 to August 06, 2023. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Duro Olowu Selects

    This exhibition was on display from March 18, 2022 to August 28, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum

    This exhibition was on display from February 04, 2022 to October 10, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from Nature

    This exhibition was on display from February 04, 2022 to July 31, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Foreign Exchange

    This exhibition was on display from January 28, 2022 to September 25, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics

    This exhibition was on display from December 10, 2021 to March 19, 2023. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer

    This exhibition was on display from September 10, 2021 to April 10, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Jon Gray of Ghetto Gastro Selects

    This exhibition was on display from July 01, 2021 to February 13, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints That Made the Fashion Brand

    This exhibition was on display from June 10, 2021 to January 02, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers

    This exhibition was on display from June 10, 2021 to January 02, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Willi Smith: Street Couture

    This exhibition was on display from March 13, 2020 to October 24, 2021. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Contemporary Muslim Fashions

    This exhibition was on display from February 28, 2020 to July 11, 2021. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Botanical Expressions

    This exhibition was on display from December 07, 2019 to September 25, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Nature by Design: Cochineal

    This exhibition was on display from November 16, 2019 to January 02, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master

    This exhibition was on display from November 16, 2019 to March 13, 2020. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • After Icebergs

    This exhibition was on display from November 16, 2019 to March 13, 2020. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Face Values: Exploring Artificial Intelligence

    This exhibition was on display from September 20, 2019 to February 13, 2023. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Botanical Lessons

    This exhibition was on display from June 08, 2019 to May 29, 2023. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Plastics

    This exhibition was on display from June 08, 2019 to January 02, 2022. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Bathing Beautiful

    This exhibition was on display from June 08, 2019 to March 13, 2020. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

    This exhibition was on display from May 10, 2019 to January 20, 2020. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Paisley

    This exhibition was on display from April 12, 2019 to November 11, 2019. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Embroidered and Embellished

    This exhibition was on display from March 30, 2019 to October 27, 2019. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Katagami

    This exhibition was on display from March 30, 2019 to October 27, 2019. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility

    This exhibition was on display from December 14, 2018 to March 31, 2019. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Rebeca Méndez Selects

    This exhibition was on display from October 05, 2018 to June 16, 2019. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Process Lab: Scholten & Baijings

    This exhibition was on display from September 14, 2018 to November 28, 2019. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.

  • Iridescence

    This exhibition was on display from July 28, 2018 to October 27, 2019. Some objects in this exhibition may not be viewable on the website due to copyright or other usage restrictions, or because there is no digitized image for the object.