Design Museum to close Shad Thames building on 30 June
The Design Museum has announced that it will shut its Shad Thames premises on Thursday 30 June as it prepares to move to Kensington.
The Design Museum will shut the doors of its Shad Thames building – a former banana warehouse – it has occupied for 27 years.
The new museum – in the former Commonwealth Institute building on Kensington High Street – will open on 24 November.
In 2013 the existing museum building was sold to Zaha Hadid Architects but few details of future plans for the site have been made public.
• This weekend the Design Museum is hosting a number of free events at Shad Thames linked to its Cycle Revolution exhibition and the Find Your London festival.
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