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12, 19 and 26 July

Design your own flag

What does a (national) flag actually say? With colours, shapes and symbols you can show what you stand for. In the family workshop 'Design your own flag' you can get to work as a flag designer yourself during the summer holidays.

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29 May 2026 19:00 — 22:00

Free Museum Evening

On Friday 29 May, it's Museum Evening again! Design Museum Den Bosch and Het Noordbrabants Museum open their doors from 7PM to 10PM. Enjoy a free evening packed with music, performances, workshops, guided tours and more.

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7 February 2026 until 14 June 2026

In Shape

The body is where design, fashion, and social norms intersect, and underwear has always played a major role in that. This exhibition reveals how, through the centuries, we have shaped our bodies not only with textiles and technology, but also through power, identity, and desire.

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8 November 2025 until 6 April 2026

From Bauhaus to Mecca

From Bauhaus to Mecca focuses on the life’s work of Dr Mahmoud Bodo Rasch. His work gives the opportunity to investigate the modern world of design and architecture. You can discover how the enormous social phenomenoms as the Islamitic pilgrimage the Hajj is connected with design.

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2 October 2025 until 22 February 2026

Ceramics display: Martijn Verzijl – A Hairy Situation

Design Museum Den Bosch proudly presents the ceramic work of young Den Bosch artist Martijn Verzijl (1999). This is Verzijl's first solo museum presentation, who alongside his artistic practice also works as a gallery attendant at the museum. In the ceramics cabinet at the top of the museum's...

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13 September 2025 until 25 January 2026

The Surface Decoration Ball

Design Museum Den Bosch holds an international collection of artists’ ceramics, created almost entirely in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This exhibition presents some of the museum’s most beautiful and important pieces, featuring leading works by world-renowned artists as well as...

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20 June 2025 19:00

FREE MUSEUM NIGHT

On Friday 20 June, it's Museum Night again! Het Noordbrabants Museum and Design Museum Den Bosch open their doors for free from 19.00 to 22.00. Everyone is welcome for an evening filled with music, performances, workshops, tours, DJs, and more.

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14 June 2025 until 7 September 2025

Design prize 2025

Design Museum Den Bosch is proud to present the work of three talents from the Brabant design world, selected by Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe, winners of the Design Prize for 2025.

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7 June 2025 until 26 October 2025

Women as Technology

Why is it that virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa and Cortana often have a female-sounding name and voice? Why was it that in the 1940s the calculating power of computers was expressed in ‘girl hours’? Discover it in the exhibition Women as technology.

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5 April 2025 until 31 August 2025

All the time in the world

How do we measure time? And above all, how do we shape it? What do ‘being productive’ and ‘getting the maximum out of your day’ actually mean? All the time in the world pauses time for a moment so we can take a closer look at it.

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19 January 2025 until 23 February 2025

Soft Spaces: Beyond the glitter

The presentation is the result of a unique co-creation process in which groups from the city have teamed up with textile artists to develop a ‘soft space’ together. For this second round of Soft Spaces, the Drag Up Family worked with the textile artist Yamuna Forzani. The result is an...

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14 January 2025 until 1 October 2025

From art academy to museum

The ceramics cabinet on the museum’s second floor is showing a selection of ceramics collected by Jan van Haaren. You will find work here by Dutch ceramists such as Etie van Rees and Jan van der Vaart, but also big European names like Lucie Rie and Lucio Fontana.

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23 November 2024 until 23 March 2025

Supreme – Resampling the World

For many young people, it’s a well-known and coveted logo: the white letters on a bright red surface of the skate brand Supreme. For older generations, the Supreme universe of drops, camping, resellers, hypebeasts, logomania, and collaborations is a completely unknown world. Design Museum Den...

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9 November 2024 until 15 December 2024

Soft Spaces: Dug-out

For the past three months, eleven young people drawn from the network of the youth support organization PowerUp073 have been working on a Soft Space of their own with the fashion designer Baby Reni.

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14 September 2024 until 9 February 2025

Design for the planet

Designers, architects and engineers have dreamed for centuries of shaping our world. What if we could build entire continents, tame hurricanes, or dim the sun’s radiation? This kind of large-scale, deliberate intervention in nature is also referred to as ‘geoengineering’: the alteration,...

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6 July 2024 until 10 November 2024

The Great Holiday Exhibition

From road maps by the ANWB and the iconic Kip caravan to the pier in Scheveningen and bikinis on the Costa del Sol, The Great Holiday Exhibition takes you through the design history of the Dutch tourist.

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23 March 2024 until 25 August 2024

Dance – the design of a culture

Electronic dance music is the sound of emancipation. Black and LGBTQ+ communities created a musical genre that enabled them to express themselves freely. That music has since gone mainstream, becoming a multi-billion-dollar industry. Design features centrally in the development of electronic dance...

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2 March 2024 until 23 June 2024

Loan Favan – TANEM FIUJA

Loan Favan was commissioned by Design Museum Den Bosch to create TANEM FIUJA, a series of jewellery and ornaments in which she speculates about the future of humanity.

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2 March 2024 until 23 June 2024

Men, women and their appliances

For decades now, our homes have been the stage for all manner of social transformations. Vacuum cleaners and washing machines eased the burden of housework, refrigerators, cookers and mixers changed the way we eat, and radio and television became new housemates. Especially from the 1960s onwards,...

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2 March 2024 until 23 June 2024

Men, women and their appliances

For decades now, our homes have been the stage for all manner of social transformations. Vacuum cleaners and washing machines eased the burden of housework, refrigerators, cookers and mixers changed the way we eat, and radio and television became new housemates. Especially from the 1960s onwards,...

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23 January 2024 until 12 January 2025

Chair, lamp, vase and… teapot?

This presentation features a selection of teapots from the Design Museum Den Bosch collection. We are showing designs by artists like Kazimir Malevich and Cindy Sherman, colourful teapots by designers from the Memphis Group, and expressive, sculptural ‘teapots’ by American artists such as...

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23 September 2023 until 3 March 2024

Mapping Modernity

Mapping Modernity is an exhibition that tells the story of our world in 250 maps. Every map offers a glimpse into the mindset of those who commissioned it and the ways in which they sought to mould the world to suit them.

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