Les collections vestimentaires du musée de Bretagne
The textile collections held today by the Musée de Bretagne at Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) are of considerable importance, and aim to show all the styles of clothing worn in the region, whether regional costumes or work clothes. The collections are comprised mainly of items of clothing, but also includ...
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Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
2024-03-01
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| Series: | In Situ |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/40260 |
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| Summary: | The textile collections held today by the Musée de Bretagne at Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) are of considerable importance, and aim to show all the styles of clothing worn in the region, whether regional costumes or work clothes. The collections are comprised mainly of items of clothing, but also include household linen, banners and flags, textile samples, and so on. The way the collections have been built up is an illustration of the way the museum itself has evolved over time, giving clothing collections more and more importance. The first decades of the 20thcentury saw the arrival of collections of uniforms and military dress, accompanied by the first embryonic examples of regional costumes. In 1913 an ethnographical exhibition saw the first presentation of Breton costumes and gave something of a new impetus to the collections in this domain. But it was only in the 1950s and 1960s with the opening of the ‘costumes gallery’, that these collections, under the auspices of René-Yves Creston and Georges-Henri Rivière, became even more important. And from the 1980s up to the present day, the collections have not ceased to be enriched, but with acquisition policies now considering pieces of clothing as cultural and social objects, in the same way as all the other items in material collections are considered. Thanks to their diversity and their scale, the museum’s collections of photographs also play a significant complementary role for the clothing collections and help the overall analysis of the clothing in Breton society. |
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| ISSN: | 1630-7305 |