Bloomsbury Fashion Central - Online Museum Collections
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Online Museum Collections

Berg Fashion Library is home to over 17,000 images of fashion objects from museums around the world. We partner with prestigious museums to provide you with high-quality images from their permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Each image is supported by rich descriptive data, and features links to related content from across the site to aid your discovery journey.

Browse the images by clicking on any of the museum collections below, or find images via search using the search bar at the top of the page. You can also find our complete directory of museums here.

Bata Shoe Museum

The world's largest, most comprehensive collection of shoes and footwear-related objects.
Contents: 40 images

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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum’s collection constitutes perhaps the world’s foremost holdings of American fashion from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
Contents: 40 images

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Commercial Pattern Archive (CoPA)

The Commercial Pattern Archive contains over 2,000 dressmaking patterns from 1868–2000, a unique tool for recreating or dating clothing.
Contents: 2219 images

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Fashion Museum Bath

The Fashion Museum Bath is one of the world's great museum collections of historical and contemporary dress.
Contents: 2641 images

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Kerry Taylor Auctions

Kerry Taylor Auctions is the leading auction house for vintage fashion, antique costume and textiles.
Contents: 1447 images

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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Featuring objects from around the globe and spanning the past 2,000 years, the images from the LACMA collection showcase the Museum's superb, wide-ranging holdings.
Contents: 1485 images

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art houses a collection of more than thirty-one thousand costumes and accessories spanning five continents and as many centuries.
Contents: 1205 images

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MOHAI

The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) is dedicated to enriching lives through preserving, sharing, and teaching the diverse history of Seattle, the Puget Sound region, and the nation.
Contents: 20 images

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MoMu Fashion Museum

This prestigious collection comprises historical costumes as well as stand-out pieces by contemporary designers.
Contents: 603 images

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Museo de la Moda

The collection of the Museo de la Moda places clothing within an historical, social and economic context. Aesthetics and design are interpreted through this larger cultural lens.
Contents: 15 images

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The Museum at FIT

The Museum at FIT focuses on fashion that makes fashion history, with particular strength in modern and contemporary women's fashion.
Contents: 719 images

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The Museum of Modern Art

Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world.
Contents: 25 images

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Highlights of the renowned costume and textiles collection from Philadelphia Museum of Art include designs by Elsa Schiaparelli and Charles Frederick Worth.
Contents: 2805 images

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Somerset House

Somerset House is London’s working arts centre, and home to the UK’s largest and most exciting creative community, overflowing with new ideas, young businesses and fresh perspectives.
Contents: 46 images

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Thumbnail of Alain Tondowski shoes
Thumbnail of installation view of the exhibition Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!

Tucson Museum of Art

The Tucson Museum of Art features original and traveling exhibitions focusing on Art of Latin America, Art of the American West, Modern and Contemporary Art and Asian Art.
Contents: 32 images

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The Valentine

The Costume and Textiles Collection at the Valentine comprises over 30,000 dress, accessory, and textile objects from the late 18th century to the present day.
Contents: 500 images

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Victoria and Albert Museum Fashion Collection

One of the most important collections in the world, the V&A's dress collection contains European fashionable clothes and accessories spanning four centuries.
Contents: 5491 images

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