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Bringing the collection to you

Our first community resource, ‘Fashion Unpacked – The Trunk’ is a hands-on, interactive luggage trunk designed to engage diverse audiences with Fashion Museum Bath's collection through creative, tactile, and learning activities. Directly inspired by the luggage in our collection and beautifully designed by Designer and Illustrator, Lesley Barnes and Furniture Designer, William Warren, each interaction draws inspiration from specific objects, materials, and themes in our brilliant collection. ‘Fashion Unpacked – The Trunk’ will travel across a range of locations across B&NES, making our collection more accessible, engaging and relatable to our communities.

Planning new galleries

The Museum will have more objects on display than ever before and we’re working to inform what goes on display in our new permanent galleries. But equally important is how our objects will be displayed. We’re working with designers and architects to develop galleries that demonstrate some of the most up to date curatorial techniques for exhibiting fashion. Through our developing partnerships we’re embedding collaborative co-working practices in our work, our ‘nothing about us, without us’ approach means we will work with our communities to help shape the Museum’s exhibitions, displays, gallery spaces, programmes and resources.

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