The Fashion Museum Bath, housed for decades in the city's Assembly Rooms, has been one of the most prestigious museums in the world dedicated to the history of fashion and costume. The collection, started in 1963 thanks to the donation of the collector Doris Langley Moore, gathers over 100,000 items ranging from the sixteenth century to contemporary creations, offering a visual narrative of the evolution of taste, style, and clothing culture.

The museum is famous for its "Dress of the Year" section, which since 1963 has documented each year a representative dress of contemporary fashion chosen by critics and experts: a unique archive that testifies to social and cultural transformations through clothing. Alongside this core, the exhibition path presented historical garments worn by the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, men's suits, work clothes, accessories, and extraordinary haute couture creations.

The Fashion Museum was not only a place of exhibition but also of study and research: students, designers, and fashion historians found in its collections an endless source of inspiration. Temporary exhibitions put historical garments in dialogue with current fashion, offering new perspectives and highlighting the continuity between past and present.

In 2022, the museum temporarily closed to the public to leave the Assembly Rooms, with the aim of reopening in a new location in Bath that can meet the conservation and accessibility needs of the 21st century. However, the collection remains intact and continues to be internationally recognized as one of the most important collections of historical and contemporary fashion.