The Salisbury Museum
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
With a collection of over 3,500 garments and accessories spanning 300 years of fashion history, the Salisbury Museum offers a unique glimpse into how people of previous generations cared for and reused their clothing. Building on the success of ‘Look Again: Discovering Centuries of Fashion’, the Fashioning Our World project involves collaboration with young participants, experts, and volunteers.
The Salisbury Museum received funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund which was delivered by the Museums Association, and support from Wessex Museums to make the project possible.
Fashioning Our World project shortlisted for the Museum Associations Museums Change Lives Award.
Fashioning our World display opens at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, 4 July – 6 September 2024.
The Fashioning Our World exhibition at The Salisbury Museum will feature fashion items from the past which tell powerful stories of sustainability.
Upcycling in the 1940s – old fabrics given new life! From: Dorset Museum & Art Gallery Women’s patchwork dressing gown with a silk velvet collar and five brass buttons. Made in the 1940s by Natalia Mary Levett (1914 – 2014), using a variety of repurposed household fabrics. Carefully crafted This
Unpicking the past to thread together the future Fashioning Our World explores the hidden stories told by clothing and accessories from the past. The project is working collaboratively with young people (aged 11 – 25) to share powerful stories with the community, change attitudes toward fashion in the future, and
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!
