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 twentyfirst century. A themed exhibition, which is changed annually, is displayed in the most intact Tudor Merchant's House in Totnes.
Find us directly opposite the market square.
Admission & prices
Opening days and times
Tuesday to Friday inclusive
Until 28th September 2018
11am to 5pm (last entry 4.30pm);
Outside these times and during October by prior appointment.
As we are only mounting a small exhibition this year entry is free but donations are welcome.
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Museum news
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Our Pop up Summer Exhibition Women through the War NOW OPEN
WOMEN THROUGH THE WAR The Impact of WW1 on how women dressed The years surrounding the First World War saw significant changes to many women's lives, which were reflected in the clothes they wore......
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Better than the VandA
We are now in the last month of our 2016 exhibition......
Information
There is no wheelchair access to the exhibition which is on the first floor.
Toilets and several cafes close by.
A new themed exhibiiton is displayed each summer in the most intact Tudor merchant's house in Totnes.
The 2018 exhibition will be:-
Women through the War
The impact of WW1 on how women dressed.
Come and meet our 13 women and one man whose lives changed so radically in this time. Lady Lillian is quite forbidding in her stiff Edwardian outfit. She may well have been a formidable charity worker before the war but during the war she has lent her home for convalescing officers. Daisy is enjoying her freedom on a bicycle and is,maybe, delivering letters and telegrams. Cristobel is of to a suffragette meeting in her 1910 outfit of a beautiful tailored suit with stunning hat - in suffragette colours of purple and green of course. By 1925 Sylvia is wearing a typical twenties straight-shaped outfit - so useful and comfortable to wear when working in the office or running for a bus. She may well be one of the 3 out of 4 women of this generation who never married and had to be self-sufficient.
The others are waiting for you to find out their stories when you visit the exhibition.
The Collection includes items of clothing from c1650 to the end of the C20th.
Guided tours and parties by appointment can be outside these times and during October.
Local textile crafts and Shire books are on sale along with other museum souvenirs.
Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum
Bogan House
43 High Street
Totnes
TQ9 5NP
T: 01803 862857
E: info@totnesfashionandtextilesmuseum.org.uk
Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum
Bogan House
43 High Street
Totnes, DEVON TQ9 5NP