until April 7, 2024
Worn stories
Fashion and costume around 1900
From afternoon gown to work cap and from peasant smock to cadet uniform: the exhibition Worn stories is all about clothes. Using the museum's unique costume and textile collection, you will learn all about daily life and the inhabitants of Breda and (West) Brabant around 1900, a meaningful time.
Historical figures
Cattle trader Piet Crassaarts and his wife Adriana, Zouave Cornelis Mermans, as a soldier in the service of the papal army, and Jeanette Houwing who made a career as a museum curator, are some of the Breda people you get to know here.
With clothing, historical photographs, accessories, archival material and stories, people come to life. A colorful collage of people who gave color to Breda and its surroundings. You discover that they symbolize something bigger: an era full of changes whose consequences are still visible.
Current view
Three creative makers look at Worn stories from their fields of expertise. Barbara van den Bogaard's interviews revolve around personal memories of clothing. Léanne van Deurzen, involved in the TV program "The Masked singer," designed a theater costume based on the collection.
The well-known fashion designer Jan Taminiau shows one of his designs and explains in the audio tour what makes the clothes from the museum collection so special.
