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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