So if you had 3 months (just to set an arbitrary limit to what you can see but feel free to ignore any time it might take to travel between museums/countries) to travel the world and see every costume related museum you could what would you want to see.
I'd prioritize several ways. Places I havent been: Museo de Traje (Madrid) Palais Galeria(?) & sometimes there's fashion exhibits at Gallerie Lafayette (Paris) Musee de Tissu (Lyons) Tessuti & The Lace Museum (Venice) Ranger's House jewelry collection (Greenwich, UK) Museum of London (London) Manchester & all the costume collections in the UK that arent in London Bata Shoe Museum (Ontario) Stibbert (Florence) Forbidden Palace Museum (Taipei) Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond VA) that ones in Barcelona, St Petersburg & Brugge & Amsterdam and Bjarne's living room so I can see his work up close. Stuff I dont even know about in the US: (I'll wait & find out what the rest of you list to fill this section in.) Places I have been, but the venue is small & the collection so large that when it changes there's a whole new experience: Pitti Palace (Florence) Kyoto Museum of Costume, Nishiki weaving district and Kyoto School of Kimono (Kyoto) Musee de la Mode, Louvre jewelry (Paris) Bunka Gakuin and TNM (Tokyo) V&A, Brit Museum jewelry collection (London) The Met, FIT (NYC) Eretz Israel ethnic costume collection (Jerusalem) Places that I've been, like the collection, but it's really an excuse to hang out with other stuff in the area: Benaki Byzantine Museum jewelry collection (Athens) Thessaloniki Archaeology jewelry collection (Thessalonika) Topkapi Palace jewelry collection (Istanbul) Provence Musee de Costume (Nice) funny, these are next to beaches in the Med! --cin Cynthia Bar,nes [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
