Exhibitions

18th century festival in Denmark

Posted Aug 5, 2010 at 11:25 CEST in Events, Exhibitions, Lectures, and Performances.

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September 3-26 there will be a big 18th century festival in Copenhagen called 1700s - globalization, gossip and greed.

There will be countless lectures, shows, tours, exhibitions and concerts, and the festival opens with a big masquerade ball. I would love to go to some of the lectures because they sound really interesting, but unfortunately I just don’t understand spoken Danish.

Click the picture above to go to the festival website!

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Museum of Childhood

Posted Jun 26, 2010 at 14:25 CEST in Exhibitions, Fashion, Flickr, Museums, and Photos.

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In London I also visited the Museum of Childhood, which had a few 18th century children’s clothes on display, and a doll from 1780 with a full set of undergarments and even a tiny chatelaine. Click the picture above to go to a flickr set with my photos from the museum.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

Posted Jun 25, 2010 at 09:40 CEST in Exhibitions, Fashion, Flickr, Museums, and Photos.

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I was just in London and among other things I visited the Victoria and Albert Museum. There are plenty of 18th century clothes on display at the museum, scattered into many different exhibitions, and I took photos of most. Click the picture above to go to a Flickr set with my photos from the V&A.

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Modemakt/Power of fashion

Posted Mar 9, 2010 at 15:25 CET in Exhibitions, Fashion, Museums, and Photos.

A couple of days ago I visited the new exhibition at Nordiska museet, Modemakt or Power of fashion. There wasn’t a huge amount of 18th century clothes but the ones they did show were really wonderful.

The exhibition has it’s own website complete with a database containing pictures and information about most of the garments on show. Continue reading to see my own photos from the exhibition.

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Modemakt - 300 år av kläder

Posted Feb 18, 2010 at 20:00 CET in Exhibitions, Fashion, and Museums.

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Modemakt - 300 år av kläder is a new exhibition opening at Nordiska museet in Stockholm on February 26. It will show clothing from the 1780s, 1860s and 1960s, “times when economy, new ideas and new technology strongly influenced fashion”.

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