Fashion at The Salisbury Museum
The Salisbury Museum fashion collection contains over 3,500 items dating from the last 300 years.
The garments are from all aspects of life including weddings and christenings, formal occasions and occupations such as farming and the military. Accessories also form a large part of the collection and these include fans, brooches, parasols, buttons, gloves, hats and shoes.
The Look Again project
Between 2018 - 2021 the museum developed its work with the fashion collection alongside local young people.
In 2018, the museum started Look Again: Discovering Centuries of Fashion and worked alongside young people, experts and volunteers to redisplay the fashion collection.
The Look Again project was funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund – delivered by the Museums Association.
Learn more about the Look Again project here.
The end result of this project was a redesigned Fashion Gallery at the museum. This display explored how we interact with clothes and told the stories of some of the items in the museum’s collection. It was opened in 2021 by British fashion icon Dame Zandra Rhodes.
The Fashioning Our World project
2022 - 2024
The Fashioning Our World project is currently underway.
The project is working with young people to explore sustainability through museum fashion collections and inspire others to make positive changes.
Find out more about Fashioning Our World and how to get involved here.