Over the last year and a half, we have been researching and gathering information about the history and growth of our collection for an exhibition planned for the fall of 2020 called Threads of our Community: The History of the Avenir.
On Thursday, April 23 at 7 p.m., a representative from the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver will present a lecture about Women's Suffrage.
On Thursday, March 12, at 7 p.m. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, professor of women's and gender studies at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, will be the guest speaker.
The humble hanger. You probably have a closet full of them, right? Well, so does the Avenir Museum, but ours are pretty special.
Clothing and other textiles like quilts play an important role in the country’s history of women’s rights.
The realization of a generous bequest from longtime Avenir Museum supporter Edith Wartburg makes it possible for undergraduate students to join the museum.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising has created a suffrage-themed exhibition examining how women’s attire in the U.S. has changed in response to the activism of the times.
The Avenir Museum is highlighting designer Orlando Dugi's purple quilted jacket, a brand new addition to the museum’s permanent collection.
Orlando Dugi, the Native American fashion designer whose high-end evening wear is on exhibit at CSU’s Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising this fall, visited campus Nov. 6-13 to give public talks, visit with classes, and see his premier solo exhibition in person for the first time.