Fashion History Museum
Fashion History Museum is a museum in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, which chronicles the history of fashion. It was founded in 2004[1] by Jonathan Walford and Kenn Norman.[2] The museum is a non-profit charitable organization.[3]
History
Founders
Prior to founding the Fashion History Museum, Jonathan Walford had been the founding curator of the Bata Shoe Museum.[2][4] Walford has been collecting historical fashions since the 1970s, finding pieces from auction houses, garage sales, and even rescuing some items from the trash.[2] He has also written several books on fashion.[5]
Walford is currently the museum's Director/Curator. The museum's other founder, Kenn Norman, who serves as the Chair of the museum's board, has a background in finance, project management and design.[3][5]
Southworks Gallery
For the first ten years of its existence the museum lacked a permanent gallery, so it created exhibitions that travelled around Canada and the world, from Hong Kong to Bahrain.[6] A pilot gallery in a mall [5] in Cambridge Ontario, in 2013 saw almost 8000 visitors in the four and a half months the museum was open there.[7]
Hespeler Post Office
In June 2015 the museum opened in a 3,000 square foot decommissioned post-office that had been opened in 1929[8] in the former town of Hespeler, now a neighbourhood of Cambridge.[4][3] The museum retained and restored the original terrazzo floors and installed replicas of antique light fixtures for lighting.[8] A restoration project for the clock over the museum's front doors was funded by the public.[9] The town of Cambridge was once a textile manufacturing hub, making the museum a suitable fit with the town's history.[3]
Collection
The museum's collection encompasses over 10,000 items.[4] These items range from what may be the oldest existing European shoe worn in North America (it was reputedly worn in New Amsterdam and dates to about 1660),[2] to dresses by Hollywood designer Adrian (Adolph Greenberg)[4] to 1970s handbags made from cigarette packs.[6]
Exhibitions
The museum has three galleries with changing exhibitions throughout the year.[2]
2015 exhibitions
- Treasures from the Collection[8]
- Back to the Eighties[8]
- What to do with an old post office?[8]
- Punks and Posers: 1980s Portraits from New York and London[8]
2016 exhibitions
- To Meet the Queen: What to Wear in the Presence of Royalty[10]
- A Canadian Fashion Story: Pat McDonagh 1967–2014[10]
- Throw me something, Sister? Muses, Mardi Gras, and Glittered Shoes, curated by Angela Brayham[11][10]
- Barbie's Boyfriend Ken: The Vintage Years 1961–1967, curated by James Fowler[12]
- What I did on my Summer Vacation: Photographs by Walter Segers [12]
- Tying the Knot: 200 Years of Wedding Attire[13][10]
- Brides Revisited: Wedding Photography 1870–1970
- Wild and Rare: Fashion and Endangered Species, curated by Lisa Cox[14]
2017 exhibitions
2018 Exhibition
- 101 Tales of Fashion (March - December 2018)
References
- ↑ "About Us". FHM. Fashion History Museum. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Slone, Isabel (18 May 2016). "Welcome to the Fashion History Museum of Cambridge, Ontario". Racked. Vox. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Weidner, Johanna (10 September 2015). "Fashion a window to history at Cambridge museum". Guelph Mercury. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Aggerholm, Barbara (1 November 2014). "Fashion museum styling a permanent home in Cambridge". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 Ingrid. "Fashion in the Museum: The Opening of The Fashion History Museum". Worn Through; Apparel from an Academic Perspective. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- 1 2 Hicks, Jeff (26 July 2013). "Fashion History Museum opens in Cambridge". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- ↑ Aggerholm, Barbara (June 2014). "After a fashion". Grand.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Martin, Ray (9 July 2015). "Fashion History Museum settles into Hespeler core". Cambridge Times. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- ↑ Martin, Ray (24 May 2016). "There's a whole lot happening in Hespeler". Cambridge Times. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 Buchanan, Vinnie (6 May 2016). "Fashion museum a hidden treasure in Hespeler". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ↑ Buchanan, Vinnie (6 May 2016). "Museum a Hidden Treasure in Hespeler". The Record.
- 1 2 Corkum, Keith (4 Aug 2016). "Fashion exhibit combs through Ken's closet".
- ↑ "Calendar". Fashion History Museum. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20.
- ↑ Thompson, Catherine (13 November 2016). "Fur, feathers and controversy Museum explores fashion's uneasy history with animals". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ↑ http://www.museumsontario.ca/museum/Fashion-History-Museum/whats-on/exhibitions/Dior--1947---1962
- ↑ http://nuvomagazine.com/style/fashioning-canada-since-1867
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/fashion-museum-cambridge-canada-history-150-1.4115725
- ↑ "Fashion History Museum". Facebook.
- ↑ https://www.therecord.com/community-story/7492401-fashion-history-museum-hosts-clothing-from-the-time-of-jane-austin/
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