Wednesday, March 23, 2005
International costume and textile museums
Prompted by In A Minute Ago's Sharon B flagging up the website of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, New York, I've ended up surfing around looking for other international fashion and textile museums. Here's a list of sites to browse - I'll add to it whenever I see another I like the look of. So many beautiful, fascinating things!
UK
Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Fashion and Textile Museum, London (run by Zandra Rhodes)
The Museum of Costume, Bath
Allhallows Lace Museum, Honiton, Devon
Fashion and Style at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, East Sussex
Bexhill Museum of Costume and Social History, East Sussex
Costume at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, West Sussex
The Boot and Shoe Collection at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
The Gallery of Costume, Manchester
Hatworks, Stockport
Shambellie House Museum of Costume, New Abbey, Dumfriesshire
The Fashion Collection at the Ulster Museum, Belfast
The Sheelin Irish Lace Museum, Bellanaleck, Fermanagh
Europe
ModeMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
The Fashion Collection at the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
Tassenmuseum Hendrikje (Museum of Handbags), Amstelveen, Netherlands
Le Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris
Musée des Tissus et des Arts decoratifs de Lyon, Lyon
Musée et Jardin Christian Dior, Granville
El Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària, Barcelona
The National Costume Center of Finland, Jyväskylä
Textiles, Clothing and Jewellery at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
The Textile Collection at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia
USA and Canada
Costume Museum of Canada, Dugald, Manitoba
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
Costume and Textiles at the Musée McCord Museum, Montreal
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, New York
American Textile Museum, Lowell, MA
Textile Museum, Washington, DC
Black Fashion Museum, Washington, DC
Kent State University Museum's Fashion Collection, Ohio
The University of Virginia Collection of Historic Dress
Costume and Textiles at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Cincinnati Dressmakers and Costume and Textiles at the Cincinnati Art Museum
The Fashion Collection at the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
The Costume Collection at the Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, MN
The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale, CA
Rest of the World
The Palestine Costume Archive, Canberra, Australia
Decorative Arts & Design at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Kobe Fashion Museum, Japan
The Kyoto Costume Institute, Japan
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UK
Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Fashion and Textile Museum, London (run by Zandra Rhodes)
The Museum of Costume, Bath
Allhallows Lace Museum, Honiton, Devon
Fashion and Style at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, East Sussex
Bexhill Museum of Costume and Social History, East Sussex
Costume at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, West Sussex
The Boot and Shoe Collection at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
The Gallery of Costume, Manchester
Hatworks, Stockport
Shambellie House Museum of Costume, New Abbey, Dumfriesshire
The Fashion Collection at the Ulster Museum, Belfast
The Sheelin Irish Lace Museum, Bellanaleck, Fermanagh
Europe
ModeMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
The Fashion Collection at the Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
Tassenmuseum Hendrikje (Museum of Handbags), Amstelveen, Netherlands
Le Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris
Musée des Tissus et des Arts decoratifs de Lyon, Lyon
Musée et Jardin Christian Dior, Granville
El Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària, Barcelona
The National Costume Center of Finland, Jyväskylä
Textiles, Clothing and Jewellery at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
The Textile Collection at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia
USA and Canada
Costume Museum of Canada, Dugald, Manitoba
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
Costume and Textiles at the Musée McCord Museum, Montreal
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, New York
American Textile Museum, Lowell, MA
Textile Museum, Washington, DC
Black Fashion Museum, Washington, DC
Kent State University Museum's Fashion Collection, Ohio
The University of Virginia Collection of Historic Dress
Costume and Textiles at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Cincinnati Dressmakers and Costume and Textiles at the Cincinnati Art Museum
The Fashion Collection at the Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
The Costume Collection at the Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, MN
The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale, CA
Rest of the World
The Palestine Costume Archive, Canberra, Australia
Decorative Arts & Design at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Kobe Fashion Museum, Japan
The Kyoto Costume Institute, Japan
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