National Museum of Costume

The National Museum of Costume is located at Shambellie House, in New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and it forms part of the National Museums of Scotland. The museum allows a look at fashion and the lifestyle of the wealthy from the 1850s to the 1950s. The clothes are presented in lifelike room settings.

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