Past Exhibitions

• Looking Forward/ Looking Back: Recent Acquisitions in 20th- and 21st-Century Design

  This exhibition was on display from August 17, 2007 to October 14, 2007. There were 35 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 34 of them.

• IDEO Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection

  This exhibition was on display from June 22, 2007 to January 13, 2008. There were 33 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 29 of them.

• Design for the Other 90%

  This exhibition was on display from May 04, 2007 to September 23, 2007. There were 76 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 0 of them.

• Wall Stories: Children's Wallpapers and Books

  This exhibition was on display from February 01, 2007 to July 01, 2007. There were 67 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 35 of them.

• Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006

  This exhibition was on display from December 08, 2006 to July 29, 2007. There were 368 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 8 of them.

• Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces—The Eugene & Clare Thaw Gift

  This exhibition was on display from October 13, 2006 to June 03, 2007. There were 35 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 30 of them.

• Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape

  This exhibition was on display from May 19, 2006 to October 22, 2006. There were 234 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 155 of them.

• Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005

  This exhibition was on display from May 05, 2006 to October 29, 2006. There were 1,289 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 768 of them.

• Solos: New Design from Israel

  This exhibition was on display from January 27, 2006 to April 23, 2006. There were 42 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 0 of them.

• Fashion in Colors

  This exhibition was on display from December 09, 2005 to March 26, 2006. There were 66 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 0 of them.

• Excavating Design: 18th-century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection

  This exhibition was on display from October 07, 2005 to January 08, 2006. There were 38 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 31 of them.

• Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance

  This exhibition was on display from April 08, 2005 to October 30, 2005. There were 271 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 21 of them.

• Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living

  This exhibition was on display from October 01, 2004 to February 27, 2005. There were 144 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 21 of them.

• Design ? Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread

  This exhibition was on display from September 10, 2004 to February 27, 2005. There were 109 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 0 of them.

• Artist's Designed Wallpapers

  This exhibition was on display from August 13, 2004 to December 12, 2004. There were 9 objects in this exhibition.

• Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More: The Revolutions of 1848

  This exhibition was on display from June 04, 2004 to July 09, 2005. There were 96 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 72 of them.

• Solos: FutureShack

  This exhibition was on display from May 14, 2004 to October 10, 2004. There were 1 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 0 of them.

• Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser

  This exhibition was on display from March 01, 2004 to July 29, 2004. There were 386 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 15 of them.

• New Hotels for Global Nomads

  This exhibition was on display from October 29, 2002 to March 02, 2003. There were 184 objects in this exhibition but only one object we can show you right now.

• Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design

  This exhibition was on display from May 14, 2002 to September 15, 2002. There were 146 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 0 of them.

• Russel Wright: Creating American Lifestyle

  This exhibition was on display from November 20, 2001 to March 10, 2002. There were 443 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 4 of them.

• Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus

  This exhibition was on display from August 21, 2001 to February 24, 2002. There were 263 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 85 of them.

• Rooms with a View: Landscape & Wallpaper

  This exhibition was on display from April 24, 2001 to October 14, 2001. There were 114 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 106 of them.

• The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver, 1680-1760 from the Alan & Simone Hartman Collection

  This exhibition was on display from April 27, 1999 to August 08, 1999. There were 30 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 28 of them.

• Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection

  This exhibition was on display from February 09, 1999 to May 23, 1999. There were 0 objects in this exhibition.

• Unlimited by Design

  This exhibition was on display from November 17, 1998 to March 21, 1999. There were 5 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 0 of them.

• Fountains, Splash and Spectacle

  This exhibition was on display from June 09, 1998 to October 11, 1998. There was one object in this exhibition.

• Opening Our Doors: Selections from the Design Resource Center

  This exhibition was on display from June 04, 1998 to August 30, 1998. There were 7 objects in this exhibition.

• Arquitectonica: The Times Square Project

  This exhibition was on display from February 17, 1998 to May 10, 1998. There were 0 objects in this exhibition.

• The Jewels of Lalique

  This exhibition was on display from February 03, 1998 to April 12, 1998. There were 2 objects in this exhibition.

• Do-It-Yourself Architecture for the Great Outdoors

  This exhibition was on display from June 24, 1997 to October 17, 1997. There were 0 objects in this exhibition.

• Kitsch to Corbusier: Wallpapers from the 1950s

  This exhibition was on display from April 11, 1995 to August 20, 1995. There were 111 objects in this exhibition.

• Recent Acquisitions: Textile Selection

  This exhibition was on display from July 01, 1993 to September 26, 1993. There were 0 objects in this exhibition.

• Choices: Recent Acquisitions

  This exhibition was on display from March 16, 1993 to October 17, 1993. There were 7 objects in this exhibition.

• The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource

  This exhibition was on display from March 26, 1991 to August 30, 1992. There were 718 objects in this exhibition but right now we can only show you 651 of them.