Our Mission

Design shapes our world. Design Museum Boston envisions creative, engaging public art and design education for Boston and New England.

Our mission is three-fold:

• To educate the public on the role of design in their lives and the contributions of design within the creative economy.
• To unite the Massachusetts design community around our common purposes of educating the public and building the design economic cluster.
• To demonstrate the transformative power of design through its practical application to real world problems.

What we do

We showcase exciting design work, and its impact, in a way that’s different from a traditional museum. Through a decentralized network of physical and virtual exhibits, Design Museum Boston brings programming to galleries, retail environments, public spaces and the web. In these spaces, audiences can be exposed to the design process from a social, economic, and environmental point of view.

Why?

The creative economy in Massachusetts is strong in large part due to it’s thriving design industry. There are 48,000 designers working throughout Massachusetts in the fields of: advertising, architecture, entertainment, fashion, landscape architecture, urban planning, video game design, web design, graphic design, industrial design, interaction design and interior design. Their work increases the beauty and utility of our built environment and significantly contributes to the public well-being and economy of our state.

Whether you’re a creative professional or not, design shapes your world. As you look around, you see buildings, graphics, products and experiences that were all originally visualized by these designers. Each work is more usable and inspiring because of designers’ involvement, but few people understand the design work behind the built environment.