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Museum of Fashion and Textiles Totnes

Resources available

Costume Collection from the eighteenth century to the present day..

Library and archive.

Museum shop.

Victorian loan box for schools and other groups.

Handling Collection

Our strengths

Annual themed exhibition

Outreach education programme for schools and adult groups.

Guided tours by arrangement.

Promotion of contemporary textile crafts.

Related workshop programme.

Costume conversations - an oral history project.

School curriculum links:

  • History (local social history; history of fashion; Victorians; 1930s and second world war dress; development of textiles and techniques)
  • Geography (trade in woollen, cotton and silk cloths)
  • English (costume/social history related stories. Creative writing)
  • Science and Design Technology (development of printing and dyeing techniques; development of natural and synthetic textiles and their uses)
  • ICT (research fashion and textiles via our website)
  • Art and Design (use our collection for inspiration)

Facilities available

Libray and archive

The Devonshire Collection of Period Costume.

Museum shop.

Toilets and cafes are nearby.

Wheelchair access to ground floor shop only.

Other places to visit in the area

Totnes Elizabethan Museum

Totnes Castle

Totnes Image Bank and Rural Archive.

The Guildhall


Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum

Totnes Fashions and Textiles Museum houses the Devonshire Collection of Period Costume, which contains clothing for men, women and children from the eighteenth century to the twen......

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