• Opening times

  05/04/2025 - 14/09/2025: * monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00

• Price

  < 12 ans: 0,00 € - Enfants: 2,00 € - Normal: 8,00 € - Etudiants: 6,00 € - Seniors: 6,00 €

Since the 1950s, skateboarding has developed from a passing children’s hobby into one of the most popular, accessible, and spectacular sports in the world. This new touring exhibition from the Design Museum in London shows how skateboard design has evolved in tandem with performance. Within the elegantly simple parameters of its key components – deck, trucks and wheels – skaters have repeatedly re-designed the skateboard to suit their performance style and surroundings.

• Opening times

  09/05/2025 - 28/09/2025: * monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00

As part of its temporary exhibition programme, the Design Museum Brussels also offers a perspective on contemporary European design. After Greece, the Czech Republic and Hungary, the focus will be now on Poland’s in May 2025. Looking Through Objects: Women in Contemporary Polish Design is proposed as an accompanying event of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union cultural programme and showcases the works of 16 Polish women designers. From product design to one-off pieces, these creations tell the story of a rich array of singular achievements. Echoing the panel discussion on this subject organised last January in collaboration with Disegno magazine, this exhibition is the result of the work of the curators Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, Gian Luca Amadei and Dario Lombardi with the Polish Institute Brussels, whom the Design Museum Brussels is delighted to welcome. Looking Through Objects is an original exhibition that illustrates the major role played by women designers in Poland today. They are now the active, independent protagonists who think about design in a way that is far removed from the roles of muses and patrons. The exhibition presents a selection of objects that offer an insight into the field of design in Poland. The aim is to understand the influence and contribution of these designers to the creative process: their inspirations, strategies and approaches to materials. The multitude of creative visions and modes of design practice prove that art, craft and technology are combined and can coexist in a single project. From pragmatic approaches to creative freedom, there are many different creative processes, and this exhibition reflects that. Design is a catalyst for art, craft and industry, translating the author’s individual and creative choices. Organisers: Design Museum Brussels and Polish Institute Brussels Partners: SWPS University in Warsaw, Royal College of Art in London, National Museum in Gdańsk Curators: Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, Gian Luca Amadei, Dario Lombardi

• Opening times

  06/06/2025 - 02/11/2025: * monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00

A hundred years ago, the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts took place in Paris, an event that would come to put a name to the Art Deco style. It would serve as a platform for a young Sylvie Feron (1898-1984), who exposed there. Just as her soon-to-be husband, René Baucher (1902-1983), she was a prolific student of one of the main figures of the movement, the decorative artist, theorist and educator Paul Follot (1877-1941), director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, who hired both of them for his Atelier Pomone. During this early creative period, the couple also worked for Magasins Vanderborght, in Brussels. This exhibition explores the archival material of the couple's design of textiles, lighting, objects, carpets and furniture during that period, with a focus on this constellation of Art Deco characters and retail enterprises. Through an intense production between Paris and Brussels, the "Art Deco" period of the Baucher-Feron couple would become the founding stone of their own studio and furniture shop.

On 13 and 14 September, the Design Museum Brussels invites you to a 100% skate weekend on the occasion of the last weekend of the Skateboard exhibition, with a festive and creative programme. This is your chance to learn how to skate with the coaches of Stoked Board Academy, or to customize your skateboard with a creative workshop where you can personalize your grip tape. You can also take advantage of the weekend to visit the Skateboard exhibition one last time and the photo exhibition showcasing the Belgian skate scene through the eyes of 10 Belgian photographers. Check out the full programme below and join us for this festive occasion. There is something for everyone, of all ages and abilities. PROGRAMME: ACTIVITY – Skateboard lessons Come and enjoy the ramp, have fun and improve your skills together. Need help with a technique or trick? The skateboarders from Stoked Board Academy will be there to help you and teach you the tricks of the trade. When: 13.09.2025 from 1pm to 4pm Age: 6-18 years old Equipment: equipment provided (helmet, protective gear, skateboard) No registration required ACTIVITY – Customize your skateboard Want to make your skateboard unique with a self-designed grip tape? During this workshop, the Stoked Board Academy team will help you create your own design using graffiti, markers, stickers, and whatever else you can think of! Whether you opt for a bold street art style or a minimalist pattern, we’ll help you step by step to unleash your creativity on your board. What to expect? Support from artists and experienced skateboarders Various materials provided: graffiti, markers, stickers, and more Your own personalized grip tape to take home The workshop is open to ages 8 and up and doesn’t require any prior experience. It’s all about fun, creativity, and self-expression! When: 13.09.2025, from 1pm to 5pm Age: from 8 years old Materials: materials included Registration: info@designmuseum.brussels EXPO – Skateboard Skateboard explores the development of skateboard design since the 1950s, focusing on its technological, performative and aesthetic evolution. Visitors will gain insight into how skaters have repeatedly re-designed their boards to new styles and environments. When: 13 and 14.09.2025, 11am to 7pm EXPO – Skateboard and photography This exhibition brings together ten works by Belgian photographers of all generations who have turned their attention to the world of skateboarding. An invitation to discover a performative practice through the photographic lens. When: 13 and 14.09.2025, 11am to 7pm Skateboarding lessons are subject to weather conditions. Follow our social media (@designmuseumbrussels) for the latest information.

About the curators: Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka is a design curator with a background in visual arts. She is interested in how local context influences design identities. She is also a columnist, event organiser, and jury member of design competitions. Agnieszka is the dean of the Faculty of Design at SWPS University in Warsaw. Previously, she was the artistic director of the Łódź Design Festival and the launching editor-in-chief at Elle Decoration Poland. Gian Luca Amadei is an architectural historian, researcher and curator. His interests intersect between architecture history, urban planning, sociology and cultural context. Gian Luca is an advocate of life-long learning and a Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in London. He is also the author of the books: Discovering Women in Polish Design (2009) and Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London (2022).

• Opening times

  18/10/2025 - 01/03/2026: * monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00

Through the collection of the Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition Design and Comics: Living in a Box explores design and its relationship to the world of comics. To create a visual narrative that can be understood universally, comic artists have developed codes for conveying information, one of which is the placement of design objects. At the beginning of the 20th century, press agencies imposed comic strips on the American press landscape. As their popularity exploded in Europe in the 1920s, comic artists, led by Belgians such as Hergé and Franquin, began to incorporate design objects to illustrate their work. Comic artists from all over the world followed suit. In the 1930s, readers discovered the expanded format of comic strips in the form of comic books. During the 1940s and 1950s, new genres such as superheroes, horror, romance and science fiction gained in popularity. The more comics were published, the more design objects featured in their drawings. In the early 1960s, as the pop art movement took centre stage, the colourful, fantastical visual language of comic books left its mark on design, as seen in Maurice Calka’s Boomerang desk in 1969 and Eero Aarnio’s Tomato Chair in 1971. The 1970s and 1980s saw the emergence of new talents at the crossroads of design and comics, such as comic artists/designers Joost Swarte and Javier Mariscal. Today, as print versions of periodicals give way to digital formats, graphic novels and manga have become a source of inspiration for remarkable design objects such as the Manga Chairs series (2015) designed by the design studio Nendo. The exhibition Design and Comics: Living in a Box in Brussels will pay particular attention to design in Belgian comics, and more specifically to the Atom style and Franquin’s characteristic Belgian playful modernism.