Name: Fashion Museum
Rating: 5.0

Fashion Museum

Fashion Museum Bath, Assembly Rooms, Bennett St, Bath BA1 2QH, UK

1-99 Years

Description

The Fashion Museum was housed in the Assembly Rooms in Bath, Somerset, England. The collection was started by Doris Langley Moore, who gave her collection of costumes to the city of Bath in 1963. It holds a world-class collection of contemporary and historic dress.

Fashion Museum Bath is the UK’s largest museum dedicated to the transformative power of fashion. We care for one of the world’s leading collections of fashion, from a 17th-Century dress worn by Lady Theophilia Harris to a pair of children’s bunny slippers made during The Second World War, our aim is to inspire, challenge and spark ideas.

If you are looking for Best place for day out with kids and families then this is the perfect destination offering fun, adventure, and unforgettable memories for everyone.

Features

Free
Host birthday parties: No

Features

Fashion Museum Bath collection: From 18th-century court dress to cycling clothes, Fashion Museum Bath cares for one of the world’s leading collections of fashion, spanning 400 years of human creativity, from around 1600 to the present day. It encompasses the full spectrum of fashion production, from haute couture to high street, home dressmaking to bespoke tailoring. Alongside garments the Museum holds an extensive array of accessories, including hair combs, handkerchiefs, gloves, socks and ties. Children’s football boots and bunny slippers from the 1940s sit alongside ballet pointe shoes by Freed of London made in collaboration with Ballet Black in 2020.
Meanwhile our archives span a range of material from 18th-century fashion plates and 19th-century cartes de visites, to 20th-century designer sewing patterns and fashion photographs which capture the spirit of the swinging sixties. Designated as a collection of outstanding national importance and of international significance for its rarity and uniqueness, we look after a huge range of objects from a rare 18th-century fashion doll’s dress to a man’s tobogganing outfit from 1884.