The Salisbury Museum
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
The Salisbury Museum’s Fashioning Our World project is showing young people how sustainable fashion choices can be inspiring. Through workshops and activities, young people will learn about traditional methods of repairing, reusing, and redesigning clothing, rather than discarding it. The goal is to spark creative ideas for extending the lifespan of garments today.
The Salisbury Museum and Dorset Museum & Art Gallery will host a vibrant programme, featuring workshops, after- school clubs, a sustainable fashion show, and culminating in an exhibition. These activities will offer young people the opportunity to learn traditional techniques for mending, altering, and upcycling their clothing, promoting a resourceful approach to creating sustainable fashion for the future.
With a collection of over 3,500 garments and accessories spanning 300 years of fashion history, the Salisbury Museum offers a unique glimpse into how people of previous generations cared for and reused their clothing. Building on the success of ‘Look Again: Discovering Centuries of Fashion’, the Fashioning Our World project involves collaboration with young participants, experts, and volunteers.
The Salisbury Museum received funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund which was delivered by the Museums Association, and support from Wessex Museums to make the project possible
The Fashioning Our World exhibition at The Salisbury Museum will feature fashion items from the past which tell powerful stories of sustainability.
Crazy patchwork dressing gown Upcycling in the 1940s – old fabrics given new life! From: Dorset Museum & Art Gallery Women’s patchwork dressing gown with a silk velvet collar and five brass buttons. Made in the 1940s by Natalia Mary Levett (1914 – 2014), using a variety of repurposed household
Empowering young people through Fashioning our World project Unpicking the past to thread together the future Fashioning Our World explores the hidden stories told by clothing and accessories from the past. The project is working collaboratively with young people (aged 11 – 25) to share powerful stories with the community,
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!
