LibGuides: Fashion Merchandising and Design Subject Guide: Fashion Museum Archives

African American and Africa Collections

National Museum of African American Culture and History (Smithsonian)
You can explore this collection by topic, date, name, and object type.
NMAAHC Collection Search Results for Clothing and Dress
Zeitz MOCAA hosts 21 Years of South African Fashion (Exhibition)
Learn about this exhibition, the designers featured in it, and South African Fashion Week.
Zeitz MOCAA Art and Artist Search
You can search the Zeit MOCAA's collection by artist or country.
African Galleries at the British Museum
Learn about the gallery and take a virtual tour.
Central African Museum (Brussels)
Mansoojat Foundation Costume Collection (Saudi Arabia)

Asia Collections

Kyoto Costume Institute Digital Collection (Japan)
You can search this collection by date.
Korean Folklore Costume Collection Museum
You can take a virtual tour of this museum.
Simone Handbag Collection (Seoul, South Korea)
Explore the highlights of this collection online.
Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum (South Korea)
You can explore some of their collections online, by clicking on collections to the left, and see more for one of the categories.

More Digital Collections from Around the World

Say you can’t fly around the world at a moment’s notice to see every cool exhibit on fashion. Luckily, there are many digital collections to search online. Not all of them are connected to one particular museum, and not all great museums have great online collections.

India: Fashion's Muse (Phoenix Museum of Art)
Fashion & Textile Museums Collections from Around the World
Victoria & Albert Museum Online Collection
You can search this collection use clothing, costume, and other keywords.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Collection
You can limit your search by object type, geographic location, date/era, and department.
The FIT Online Collections
Europeana Fashion Project
Explore fashion – historical clothing and accessories, contemporary designs, catwalk photographs, drawings, sketches, plates, catalogues and videos – from more than 30 European public and private institutions.
Israel Museum
Features exhibition focused on clothing called Dress Codes: Revealing the Jewish Wardrobe.

South America Collections

Museu de Moda (Canela, Brazil)
This museum allows a journey through time, telling 4000 years of the history of women's clothing.
Museo de la Moda (Santiago, Chile)
More than 17,000 pieces of fashion in conservation.

Mexico and Central America Collections

Museo Franz Mayer
Museo Textil De Oaxaca
Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing
Museo Casa del Tejido Atiguo
The premier stop for information on Guatemala's unique cultural heritage of ancient weavings (tejido).