Housed in a bright white former banana warehouse by the river, the Design Museum was once the city's foremost showcase of modern design. It had on display a permanent collection of more than 2,000 everyday objects, such as telephones, vacuum cleaners, furniture, ceramics, and the like, the aim being to explain why mass-produced objects look the way they do, and how design contributes to the quality of our lives. Unfortunately, the collection was put into storage a few years ago when the museum decided to focus on temporary exhibitions of contemporary designers instead -- consult the website for details of the latest shows. There are plans to bring the permanent collection out of the vaults at some unspecified point in the future.
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