Abstract
The article analyzes the experience of the Russian Ethnographic Museum (REM) in preparing exhibition projects dedicated to the study and display of traditional clothing typical of the peoples of Eurasia in the 18th–20th centuries. These projects in the context of “Anthropology of the Thing” were divided into exhibitions of complete costume complexes; exhibitions of individual costume elements, and exhibitions demonstrating various materials and techniques for making folk clothing. These thematic exhibitions held with the annual scientific conferences “Fashion and Design: Historical Experience – New Technologies” held by the REM jointly with the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design and the State Hermitage Museum. The long-term exhibition project “Anthropology of the Thing” allows us to consider the issues of costume and textile design using the example of studying museum collections in combination with discussions at scientific conferences attended by both museum staff and a wide range of specialists in the field of costume and fashion history, archaeologists, ethnographers, art historians, designers, fashion designers, etc.
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