Gordon Russell Design Museum

Gordon Russell was a design pioneer – a furniture designer, maker, calligrapher, entrepreneur, educator, and champion of accessible, well crafted design. Schooled in the Arts and Crafts tradition of the Cotswolds he believed that good design has a lasting impact on people’s lives. His great skill was making connections between hand and machine, craft and design, theory and practice, landscape and architecture.

Located in the original workshop, the Museum celebrates the life and work of Gordon Russell and his Company over a period of sixty years in Broadway, Worcestershire. Its unique collection of furniture embraces a range of styles spanning this rich period of design: from the Arts and Crafts to 30s streamline Modernism; Utility Furniture to 1980s luxury post modernism. To complement this collection the Museum has an extensive archive of original drawings, notebooks, catalogues and correspondence, as well as access to the firm’s original reference library.

Education

The Gordon Russell Design Museum offers a range of rich and varied resources, workshops and outreach to support teaching and learning for Primary, Secondary, Further and Higher Education students, teachers and lecturers.

We have created a series of teachers’ resource packs to download for use with students studying product design, resistant materials, design and technology as well as art and design. Additional study units are available for Key Stages 1 – 3, GCSE and A level.

There are also fun activities for all the family located in the ground floor galleries.