An iconic fashion museum is set to reopen in the autumn of 2030 as architects have been appointed to the major project. The Fashion Museum Bath shut in October 2022 when the National Trust took back its former home in the Assembly Rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new home had been identified in the Grade II listed old post office on the corner of New Bond Street but contractors had not yet been hired. Now architects 6a have been given the job of turning the site into a \u201cstate-of-the-art 21st Century cultural institution\u201d, bosses say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018International significance\u2019 – Construction is expected to start in 2027, with the museum expected to open its doors in the autumn of 2030 \u2014 eight years after it closed at its former home of the Assembly Rooms. As well as museum galleries to display its collection, the museum would include new learning spaces for workshops, lectures, and school visits, a caf\u00e9 and shop, and venues for hire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul Roper, Bath and North East Somerset Council\u2019s cabinet member for economic and cultural sustainable development, said: \u201cThe creation of our new fashion museum is of national and international significance, adding, \u201cThis is going to be a new, world-class institution in a UNESCO World Heritage City, and there is huge excitement that, at long last, we will be able to display our unique and outstanding fashion collection in a location and setting that it fully deserves.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The collection is being stored until it can be displayed fully again The new location will have double the floorspace that the museum had at the Assembly Rooms. While homeless, the collection is being stored at glove makers Dents in Warminster, as they have the appropriate facilities to store the fragile clothes. (BBC News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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