Costume Museum of Canada, Fashion museum in Winnipeg Exchange District, Canada.
The Costume Museum of Canada is a fashion museum in Winnipeg that houses a collection of approximately 35,000 textile objects. The holdings include clothing and accessories spanning several centuries of Canadian history.
The museum was founded in 1983 in Dugald and relocated to Winnipeg in 2007. It later shifted its focus to mobile exhibitions and educational programs.
The museum displays garments and accessories that reflect the textile traditions of different communities across Canada. Visitors can see how various groups developed their own approaches to clothing, weaving, and decorative techniques over time.
The institution offers a Museum in a Suitcase program that allows schools and organizations to engage with textile objects firsthand. This format brings historical clothing directly to educational settings.
The museum was Canada's first textile museum and incorporated 2,000 artifacts from a previous University of Manitoba textile collection into its holdings. These founding pieces became the core of what the institution has built since.
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