The Dutch Costume Museum is housed in a beautiful 17th century canal house and is interesting for everyone who is visiting Amsterdam and like to know a little bit more about the Dutch history. If you love history, fashion, design, crafts and local storytelling... this is the place in Amsterdam where you can find it.
There is a renewed interest in sustainable fashion with a story, in which craft and handwork are prominent. This stirs up a new curiosity in traditional folk costumes which can be admired at the Dutch Costume Museum. Local and traditional clothing with its characteristic scent of form and proportion is a source of inspiration for today‘s fashion designers.
Exhibition "Kotomisi, the power of Surinam traditional costume'. Surinam used to be a colony of Holland and is in Latin America above Brazil. Exhibition is till 1/6/2020. 17 beautiful traditional costumes from the kotomuseum from Paramaribo in Surinam. 15 filmed portraits of women who still wears the costume .