Just in time for the inauguration of their new Holyoke History Room, the Wistariahurst Museum acquired the possessions of long-time Holyoke, Massachusetts, resident Julia Bloodgood. Among Julia’s family treasures was this c 1885 dress, which Museum Textile Services conserved and mounted on an archival manikin custom built by Camille Breeze. Learn more at www.creatingholyoke.org and www.wistariahurst.org.

The National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts, has an extraordinary array of traveling and permanent exhibits ranging from Masonic art to Muppets! You can see textiles that we've conserved in both the permanent and traveling exhibit galleries. www.monh.org.

Our conservation work is on display in the Farnsworth Art Museum’s exhibit Elegantly Attired: Victorian Apparel and Accessories in Coastal Maine. The exhibition draws on the museum’s collection of nineteenth century clothing and accessories including day and evening attire, nightgowns, undergarments, hats and shoes, fans, and jewelry dating from 1850 to 1900. The exhibition, which is on display in the museum’s Nevelson/Berliawsky Gallery, runs through April 25, 2010. www.farnsworthmuseum.org.

Museum Textile Services is pleased to have taken part in the conservation of textiles for the exhibit Voices of the Land : The People of East Tennessee featuring 550 artifacts in and over 350 voices and quotations that tell the story of the land and the people of East Tennessee. The overshot coverlet seen in this photo was made by a former slave. Photo at right.

Past Exhibitions can be viewed here