The world of 'design' covers everything from art to tech to textiles. It's where creativity meets practicality. Scroll on, and use the arrows to point, click, and drag your way through 5 museums around the world celebrating the aesthetics and the ingenuity of design.

The V&A, as it's familiarly known, was founded in 1852 and houses the world's largest collection of sculpture, design, and decorative arts (around 2.3 million objects). The museum sits on London's Exhibition Row, along with the Natural History Museum and Science Museum.

The museum's sculpture halls are like no other. The carefully crafted facsimiles and plaster casts in these rooms have educated and inspired artists for over 150 years. But some of its holdings are more recent: in 2015 the museum acquired Nguyen Ha Dong’s app Flappy Bird.

Here you can wander the halls of Italy's Museum of Design in that most famed city of fashion, Milano. Click your way through a timeline of tasteful modern marvels!

Denmark is recognised around the world for setting high standards and creating innovative objects, from LEGO bricks to Arne Jacobsen's Egg chair. Many Danish designers find their imaginations fired by the objects held at the Designmuseum Danmark.

For students of design, the museum is invaluable. Among the physical collection of posters, chairs, and household objects, the library holds a fully annotated and illustrated database of every single piece of furniture made in Denmark between 1900 and 2000.

It always helps when the building itself is a masterpiece. In 2016 the Design Museum moved from a banana warehouse on the banks of the Thames to its new home in the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, not far from the V&A.

Standing in the atrium of London's Design Museum, you can fully appreciate the stunning hyperbolic paraboloid roof, which soars over the open space. The upper floors hold the permanent collection, while downstairs are temporary exhibitions.

The sleek metal curves of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza are the unmistakable mark of the late British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, who emphasised the 'transparency, porousness, and durability' of the structure, as well as its ecological features.

The undulating walls and bright, white interior make it look like something from A Space Odyssey. These otherworldly spaces contain the exhibition hall, conference hall, design museum, design lab, and other public event spaces.

Water is the source of all life on our planet. It's little wonder that countless artists have been inspired and fascinated by oceans, rivers, and seas. 

But painting water brings its own set of unique challenges, responded to in characteristic ways by different artists.

But can you identify the following paintings and artists from a close-up of the water and waves in their works?

This 1831 print gained significant worldwide attention despite Japan being under a strict period of isolation at the time. The image focuses on the unpredictable and often raging seas near Japan’s famous Mount Fuji.

The work was part of a series of scenes labeled Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. This was the most famous as it depicted the ocean in all its unpredictable anger. The waters around Fuji were said to fill sailors with an extreme sense of trepidation and dread. 

The work was completed in a hypnotising blue, forming the foaming and roaring waves and crashing sea. Mount Fuji is visible in the distance, but it is the wave that dominates the frame.

But can you name the artwork?

Created between 1829 and 1833, this print can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This work was first exhibited in 1874 and shows a serene depiction of the harbour at Le Havre, France. The artist gained much attention for the subtle changes and uses of soft colors to show the first glimpse of the morning sun.

A number of small boats, presumably paddled by local fisherman on their way out to land a catch, are silhouetted on the water and reflected by some causal brushstrokes. 

As the light pierces through the hazy fog and mist of the morning, bolder colors appear on the water, cutting through a more muted palette. 

But do you know the artist or the picture?

This 1872 work is currently on display at the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.

This work depicts a point in history when sailing ships had begun to be rendered obsolete by steam power and more modern forms of propulsion. These new ships could travel faster and further and a whole fleet of older wooden sail ships were being retired. 

In this picture, and old sail boat is being dragged to be broken up, after having played a major role in the Battle of Trafalgar, a major English maritime victory. The artist sees the beauty in the fading grandeur of the ship but it is the sky and reflections in the water that really dazzle.

The larger and older ship is somewhat lost in the misty and murky tones of the background as the newer steam ship in the foreground is clearer and in greater focus.

But who painted this historical maritime classic?

This 1838 work has a permanent home at the National Gallery in London.

The ocean seems to blend into the sky, with the horizon blurred slightly by clouds or fog. A lone figure stares out into the waves.

It was painted between 1808 and 1810 and is regarded as one of the most famous German works from that time. The sky dominates most of the canvas, with only a small section of the land and sea at the bottom. 

The elements surrounding the lonely figure seem to suggest human insignificance compared to the vastness of God, nature, and the universe. 

But what is the painting?

This work is on show at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany.