Hi Piotr (and thanks for the shout-out, Elizabeth),
Adding to the excellent advice everyone has already posted, there is a Costume Professionals group on LinkedIn that you can apply to join. Members are a mix of theatre, collector, and museum people and it's a good forum for soliciting answers to practical questions. It might be a good resource for you as you embark on your exhibition.
There is an ICOM Costume Committee meeting in Toronto in early September, and there will be a short committee meeting during the ICOM Triennial in Milan next July as well. Here is a link to the Costume Committee webpage:
http://network.icom.museum/costume/
And finally, although I don't know of any other museums in Poland with costume (though there's a great textile collection, tapestry especially, in Lodz), there are many museums in Europe that have costume collections that might be able to offer more local advice on things like mannequin sources and other matters. Here is a link with a list
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Best of luck,
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Melissa Leventon
Principal, Curatrix Group
San Francisco CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-16-2015 11:53 AM
From: Marian Ann Montgomery
Subject: Cortume, dress and fashion
As noted The Costume Society of America and the ICOM Committee are good sources for discussion. Many institutions have Curators focused on this subject matter.
The Clothing and Textiles Collection of the Museum at Texas Tech University holds over 26,000 objects of garments, accessories, household linens, quilts, coverlets and dolls. We welcome any research inquiries and continue to build the collection so that it is a source for design and history research. My work focuses on fashion history, fashion exhibitions, curating fashion exhibitions, but also exhibitions and research on the other aspects of the extensive collection. I continue to work to build the collection with objects that extend it's research and exhibition capabilities and am happy to help or discuss issues if you want to contact me at marian.ann.montgomery@ttu.edu.
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Marian Ann Montgomery PhD
Curator of Clothing and Textiles
Museum of Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-15-2015 04:36 PM
From: Piotr Szaradowski
Subject: Cortume, dress and fashion
Hi everyone,
I would like to ask are there any people interested in fashion or dress history; fashion exhibitions; curating fashion exhibitions etc.? I know that there is no special department dedicated to these subject in AAM, but maybe some of us are involved in these issues?
Please, let me know :)
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Piotr Szaradowski
Assistant Professor, Department of Education
National Museum in Poznan
Poznan
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