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Exhibition Road Day of Design 2019 was held on Sunday 22 September. The event was established as a collaboration between multiple partners along Exhibition Road, to celebrate the final day of London Design Festival. Exhibition.

South Kensington is a hub of world-renowned research. From leading international studies on health, studies on our natural world, and discovery in space, we’ve collected some of the highlights coming out of Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum over the past few months.

Not only is South Kensington full of incredible visitor attractions it is also a world-renowned hub for scientific research. We round up some of last year's research from Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum.

The Great Exhibition Road Festival was a chance to explore the extraordinary this summer. Over one weekend, South Kensington’s Exhibition Road hosted a celebration of curiosity and discovery, with a new, free festival of art, science and culture.

Over one weekend on 28-30 June, South Kensington’s Exhibition Road will host a celebration of curiosity and discovery, with a new, free festival of art, science and culture.

South Kensington welcomed over a thousand students to Creative Quarter. The event, for 13-19 year olds, included talks, demonstrations, drop-ins and workshops and aimed to educate and inspire children in creative careers.

The V&A's iconic Cast Courts re-open in December, the only galleries that display the same breathtaking collection of inspiring objects, as when they originally opened in 1873.

V&A Photography Centre opens, more than doubling the space dedicated to photography and spanning four galleries. The new centre opened on 12th October with major new commissions and month-long Photography Spotlight.

Exhibition Road Day of Design in 2018 was a collaboration between multiple partners along Exhibition Road, to celebrate the final day of London Design Festival and the V&A’s Digital Design Weekend.

The Design Museum wins 2018 European Museum of the Year and becomes the first British winner of the award since 2013 and only the sixth British winner in the award’s history.

The world’s first photographic experiments, pictures by 20th century greats, acquisitions by Linda McCartney gifted by Paul McCartney and his family, and newly commissioned works by Thomas Ruff, will go on display this autumn as part of the V&A’s new Photography Centre.

Success for The Design Museum as it reaches one million visitors, Ferrari: Under the Skin becomes the museum’s highest ever attended exhibition with 90,000 visitors to date and over 60,000 learners have visited the museum since it opened in Nov 2016

Imperial College London has historically been the home of a huge amount of exciting and innovative scientific discoveries, and that legacy continues today. We’ve collected together a few of the university’s most exciting news stories from the last year.

The Natural History Museum has announced its commitment to ending the sale of single use plastic water bottles on their sites in South Kensington and Tring, as they move towards a refillable culture at the Museum.

The Design Museum celebrates the anniversary of its first year in Kensington with highest visitor numbers in its history. More than 780,000 visitors have attended the Design Museum since opening on 24 November 2016

5,000 years of musical heritage from 200 UK collections is brought together for the first time in a project led by Royal College of Music, with a major new website documenting 20,000 historically significant musical instruments.