New home announced for Fashion Museum Bath

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New home announced for Fashion Museum Bath
The internationally important Fashion Museum, Bath will be moving to a new location at the Old Post Office in the centre of Bath.



BATH.- The internationally important Fashion Museum, Bath will be moving to a new location at the Old Post Office in the centre of Bath. It will also create a new Fashion Collection Archive in Locksbrook, to the west of the city centre, to house the collection. The aim is for the Museum and Fashion Collection Archive to open in three to eight years time, dependent on fundraising.

To help deliver the project, Bath & North East Somerset Council has submitted a £20 million bid the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund, to help complete the £37 million project. The project will boost the visitor economy of the region and create jobs and opportunities for local and regional people. The council has also received a £2.4 million grant from the West of England Combined Authority, which will contribute towards the regeneration of the Milsom Quarter, including the opening of the new Fashion Museum.

Councillor Kevin Guy, Leader of Bath & North East Somerset Council commented: “Located in the heart of Bath, the Old Post Office presents us with a unique opportunity to create one of the world’s great museums of Fashion. It will be more accessible, engage with a wider range of people, tell a greater range of stories than we’ve ever been able to do before and will help to boost surrounding businesses.”

He continues: “The relocation of the Fashion Museum to the Old Post Office forms part of our wider Milsom Quarter Masterplan, an ambitious 20-year vision to transform the Milsom Quarter area of Bath into a fashion destination for the South West, attracting creative industries to the area, relocating the Fashion Museum and providing 180 new homes.”

“The project will not only provide a home for this internationally important collection but will also provide strong benefit to the local area. Together, the new Museum and Fashion Collection Archive will increase visits and overnight stays to the area -boosting the visitor economy and employment and helping to catalyse the regeneration of an area of the city centre hard hit by covid. It will provide upskilling and reskilling opportunities to local communities and increase access to, and use of, one of the world’s leading museum collections of fashionable dress for education, creative industries and members of the public. It will also provide cultural engagement opportunities to local audiences who have traditionally not visited the Fashion Museum.”

Rosemary Harden, Fashion Museum Manager, added: “The Fashion Museum’s collection is of national and international significance. It is one of the best museum collections of fashion and dress in the world, as well as being a vital part of the heritage and cultural history of the city of Bath. It is important that we are able to care for this world-class collection and make it accessible to everyone who wishes to visit, and our future buildings are equipped to allow us to do this. We feel that the Old Post Office offers great opportunities to display the Museum collection in different ways and will allow us to develop future events, exhibitions, learning spaces, etc.”

She goes on to say: “The collection is so extensive that we can use it as a touchstone to explore a variety of contemporary issues such as sustainability and identity. Through our community consultation so far we’ve found that the collection can fascinate, delight and inspire!”




"While the Museum is closed, we will continue to develop our loans programme, so that supporters of the Fashion Museum across the world will continue to be able to see the collection in other galleries and museums. In addition, you will still be able to view the Museum digitally and there will be opportunities to take part in activities and events throughout the closure period.”

A home for the collection: As well as the new Museum location, the Council will open a purpose-built Fashion Collection Archive in the Bath Spa University Creative Arts Quarter in Locksbrook (an area to the West of the city centre of Bath). This will provide a home for the collection and a place where displays for the city centre Museum will be prepared. This building will be accessible to all (including the public, filmmakers, and industry specialists), who will have the opportunity to interact with the wider collection through special events, activities and study sessions. The Museum is partnering with Bath Spa University on this new project, which will open in the next three to five years.

What will happen to the collection when the current Museum closes? The current Museum in the Assembly Rooms will close on Sunday, October 30, 2022 and the collection will be housed close to Bath in temporary accommodation.

The Fashion Museum will continue to loan items to other museums for exhibitions, and in 2021, 603,000 people saw objects from the Museum’s Collection worldwide. Items are currently on loan to:

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the V&A, London until 6 November 2022 and then touring in 2023 with venues confirmed in Beijing and Shengu.

Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary – a V&A exhibition that is currently on tour and will next be on display at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan, opening 26 November 2022. Previous venues include V&A, London (2019/2020); V&A Dundee (2020); Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia (2021); Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand (2021/2022) and Taipei Fine Arts Museum - over 20 pieces from the Fashion Museum collection have been loaned to the show.

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk – a V&A exhibition that is currently on tour. Previous venues include V&A, London (2020) and World Culture Museum, Gothenburg (2021). Due to open at Musée du Quai Branly in Paris on 22 November 2022 and then possibly move to Zurich.

Coming up this autumn Dandy Style at Manchester Art Gallery, 06 October 2022 to 01 May 2023 and Mirror Mirror. On Fashion and the Psyche at MoMu Antwerp, 07 October 2022 to 26 February 2023.










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