From Sunday 22 September, the new Design Museum, currently under construction in the London district of Kensington, will open its doors via an online platform called Stickyworld. Launched to coincide with an actual open house weekend, the the virtual tour will provide remote visitors with an alternative way to experience the building, which is due to be completed in 2015.

Virtual visitors will be able to explore the new museum with 360-degree renders, panoramic images and plans. Users can access the tour from the comfort of their homes by logging on to Stickyworld or via terminals located in the current museum at its site in Shad Thames.

The tour will offer visitors the opportunity to virtually walk from the museum’s entrance on Kensington High Street, into the atrium and wander down the staircase to the 194-seat auditorium, or up to the first floor – where the Sackler Library and Archive and the Swarovski Centre for Learning spaces will be located – and the second floor, where the restaurant and the permanent display of the museum’s design collection will be housed under the hyperbolic paraboloid roof that uniquely characterises the building.

Users can interact within the rooms by leaving digital sticky notes with comments and ideas about the museum’s plans for its new home.

The new Design Museum will be three times the size of the current site and will host a wider range of exhibitions and an enhanced learning programme, as well as showcasing the museum’s permanent collection of design, which will be accessible free of charge for the first time.