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Refashioning Bath: the new Fashion Museum

We are creating a new fashion museum in the centre of the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bath. It will be a leading museum dedicated to the history and heritage of fashion.

The landmark project will see us transform Bath’s Grade II listed Old Post Office into a state-of-the-art 21st-century museum comprising galleries and learning spaces and showcasing more of our extraordinary collection than ever before.

Through exhibitions, displays, a world renowned loans programme, and new education and communal public spaces, Fashion Museum Bath will deliver opportunities for audiences to engage with, learn about, be inspired by, and share their experiences of fashion, past, present and future.

The Museum will appeal to tourists and locals, be accessible, and inclusive with a strong focus on learning and skills. It will stimulate economic regeneration and be an exemplar of sustainable retrofit of a heritage building.

We anticipate reopening in 2030, take a look at our milestones for the latest updates.

The Old Post Office: our new home

The project will bring back to life the Grade II listed ‘Old Post Office’, a key building in Bath and the only listed 20th Century Building in the City Centre. It will regenerate a key heritage building that has fallen into disrepair and the building will be designed as an exemplar of environmentally sustainable retrofit.

The Old Post Office offers up to 3500sqm of space for the Museum whilst the old space at the Assembly Rooms allowed only 1500 sqm. This will be a transformational change in scale.

The Old Post Office is positioned in the centre of the city of Bath. It is accessible via active travel and public transport routes. It is also close to other existing attractions in the City.

The Old Post Office also acts as a ‘gateway’ to a city precinct know as the Milsom Quarter. The Council has an ongoing plan to regenerate this area and the Old Post Office’s location affords it the opportunity to act as an anchor institution in this transformational regeneration project.

The Fashion Collection Archive at Bath Spa University

In partnership with Bath Spa University, the Collection will be stored in a purpose-built facility, co-located at the Locksbrook Creative Quarter, 20 minutes’ walk from the City Centre Museum. This facility will form part of a wider development to provide skills, education and innovation space to students and locals alike. The archive will strengthen the impact of one of Bath’s anchor education institutions whilst also providing a focus for the research, innovation and promotion of sustainable Fashion. It will also be available as a public asset for residents and researchers alike.

The new Fashion Collection Archive will house the Collection comprising over 100,000 objects, giving us the space to provide specialist care for our internationally important collection, prepare exciting exhibitions for the museum and welcome the public for special events and activities.

The Archive will also provide students, researchers, academics and professionals with a unique opportunity to examine and engage with the collection as part of their work.

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