In this curator-guided tour of Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection, visitors will explore the historical foundations and the future direction of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection. The national design collection, which has been part of the Smithsonian since 1967, is a living one that continues to grow and change as new works and ideas that...

Build your design toolkit! Design Practice is a series of free, drop-in workshops for high school students exploring techniques, strategies, and careers in design. No prior experience required—just bring yourself and a creative mindset. This month, join artist and designer Jessie French as we explore the world of bioplastics. Designers all over the world are working on solutions to the problem of plastic pollution, and Jessie’s work explores plastics made from algae! Participants will work with this algae bioplastic material, molding their own keychain or small object to take home.  

Join us for a tour of the iconic Carnegie Mansion, the former home of industrial magnate Andrew Carnegie and current home of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Build your design toolkit! Design Practice is a series of free, drop-in workshops for high school students exploring techniques, strategies, and careers in design. No prior experience required—just bring yourself and a creative mindset. This month, join us for a jewelry design workshop with Vanessa Miller of BQMNY. Each participant will create their own wire wrapped ring with a selection of crystal beads, learning all about the principles of jewelry along the way.  

Collaborate as a family and create a stage design for a favorite song! Play the part of a set designer and choose shapes, colors, and imagery to evoke a mood and convey the song’s message visually. This program is inspired by the work of artist and designer Es Devlin, currently on view in the exhibition, An Atlas of Es Devlin.

Collaborate as a family and create a stage design for a favorite song! Play the part of a set designer and choose shapes, colors, and imagery to evoke a mood and convey the song’s message visually. This program is inspired by the work of artist and designer Es Devlin, currently on view in the exhibition, An Atlas of Es Devlin.

Build your design toolkit! Design Practice is a series of free, drop-in workshops for high school students exploring techniques, strategies, and careers in design. No prior experience required—just bring yourself and a creative mindset. This month, join us for a graphic design workshop inspired by the exhibition Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols. Participants will meet multidisciplinary designer Kristian Mentor of NULL NYC, who will lead participants in creating their own logo or brand design. Snacks and an exhibition tour will also be offered.

In this curator-guided tour of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, visitors will explore some of the exhibition’s 25 original commissions, highlighting design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional experiences of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established...

In this curator-guided tour of An Atlas of Es Devlin, visitors will examine the origins, rigor, and depth of Devlin’s process through a compelling journey into her 30-year archive, charting teenage drawings and paintings, to designs for theater, opera, stadium concerts, and ceremonies, to her current engagement with climate and civilizational crises. The exhibition will reveal thematic connections and trace the development of Devlin’s groundbreaking ephemeral architectures. Tour led by the exhibition’s curator, Andrea Lipps, Associate Curator of Contemporary Design and Head, Digital Collecting.

In celebration of the final weeks of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes, join the exhibition’s curators, conservators, and book contributors for a series of presentations offering new research on Liebes’s career and work from a range of perspectives. Topics will include Liebes’s experimental approach to color and materials; conservation...

In this curator-guided tour of An Atlas of Es Devlin, visitors will examine the origins, rigor, and depth of Devlin’s process through a compelling journey into her 30-year archive, charting teenage drawings and paintings, to designs for theater, opera, stadium concerts, and ceremonies, to her current engagement with climate and civilizational crises. The exhibition will reveal thematic connections and trace the development of Devlin’s groundbreaking ephemeral architectures. Tour led by the exhibition’s curator, Andrea Lipps, Associate Curator of Contemporary Design and Head, Digital Collecting.

Special opportunity to meet artist and designer Es Devlin, the subject of the current retrospective An Atlas of Es Devlin. Devlin will be available to meet visitors, share stories, and sign her book and exhibition poster.   This event is free with museum admission and will take place in the Process Lab on the first floor....

How many pictures is a word worth? In this workshop, participants will use words as a launching point to explore the visual language of color, shape, and pattern. Design illustrated texts that pull inspiration from the words of poetry and song. This program is inspired by the work of artist and designer Es Devlin, currently on view in the exhibition, An Atlas of Es Devlin.

In this curator-guided tour of An Atlas of Es Devlin, visitors will examine the origins, rigor, and depth of Devlin’s process through a compelling journey into her 30-year archive, charting teenage drawings and paintings, to designs for theater, opera, stadium concerts, and ceremonies, to her current engagement with climate and civilizational crises. The exhibition will reveal thematic connections and trace the development of Devlin’s groundbreaking ephemeral architectures. Tour led by the exhibition’s curator, Andrea Lipps, Associate Curator of Contemporary Design and Head, Digital Collecting.

How many pictures is a word worth? In this workshop, participants will use words as a launching point to explore the visual language of color, shape, and pattern. Design illustrated texts that pull inspiration from the words of poetry and song. This program is inspired by the work of artist and designer Es Devlin, currently on view in the exhibition, An Atlas of Es Devlin.