The
Dress Museum
The Museum has an impressive collection of more than
30,000 objects, including dresses and dress accessories
from 16th century to the present, with rotating exhibitions
because the museum has space to show simultaneously
only the 10 percent of its collection. The museum was
created by the designer, collector and historian Doris
Langley Moore in 1963 who donated her famous collection
of dresses.
The Museum is lodged in the Assembly Rooms, a magnificent
building of the 18th century, created to serve as lodging
for a particular form of diversion of the time, call
"Assemblies", where a great number of people
joined to dance, have tea, listen to music and play
card games. Severely damaged in a bombing raid during
World War II, it was reconstructed and reopened to the
public in 1963.
Assembly Rooms,
Bennett Street,
Bath
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