The Costume Society encourages museums with dress and textile collections to apply for next year’s award. For information on how to apply next year click here.

 Deadline for next year’s award is 1 April 2009

 

The Costume Society Museum Placement Award 2008

Read the Curators and Students reports here.

The Costume Society is delighted to have been able to make two awards this year. Hannah Oliver is volunteering at the Fashion Museum in Bath researching and updating documentation on the Museum’s long-term loans and improving the storage of the fashion photography archive.

Lindsey Holmes is volunteering at Ayscoughfee Hall Museum assessing its dress collection in terms of appropriate items for display and handling, and identifying garments as suitable candidates for reproduction for the Museum’s education programme. The Costume Society encourages museums with dress and textile collections to apply for next year’s award. For information on how to apply next year, click on ‘awards’ above. Deadline for next year’s award is 1 April 2009.

The Costume Society Museum Placement Award Winner 2007

Read the Curators and Students reports here.

The Costume Society is delighted to announce that the winner of the Museum Placement Award this year is Annabel Talbot who is volunteering at the Bowes Museum. Annabel will be working with the curator, Joanna Hashagen, three days a week from June to the end of September.
 
Annabel will be helping with the documentation of acquisitions since 2002, researching and mounting garments selected for the new Costume and Textile Galleries at the Bowes, as well as assisting with the organisation of conservation and design work. The Costume Society was extremely pleased with the response to the announcement of the first Museum Placement Award. There were seven applicants and all were of very high quality.