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Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising

Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising

Avenir Museum Closed Until Further Notice

 

As an investment in the health of our CSU community and our larger responsibility to the health of our many visitors, the Avenir Museum is closed to the public until further notice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  To stay abreast of museum closure information, please visit our website:  www.avenir.colostate.edu

Up-to-date information regarding CSU preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic can be found at: www.safety.colostate.edu/coronavirus

Thank you for understanding, and be well.

 

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Learn More Explore Our Museum

Exhibits and Lectures

The Avenir features several new exhibits every academic year. We welcome our regional community to visit our exhibits and participate in our lecture series.

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Explore Our Galleries

The Avenir is FREE and open to the public. We have five galleries in three locations across the CSU campus.

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The Collection

CSU students have the opportunity to work with our collection artifacts according to museum standards of care and handling and learn about apparel and textiles spanning cultures and centuries.

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Global Connection "Avenir" means future...

Through exhibitions, courses, and public programs, the Avenir Museum fosters the telling of global stories of people and their textiles, dress, and interior furnishings — how they are made and used, and what they mean to us all.

What’s your story?

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Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising Our History

The Avenir Museum collection began in the early 1950s as a small teaching resource for faculty in the former Department of Home Economics; it was housed for many years in the Gifford Building, which was also the location of the collection’s original Gustafson Gallery exhibition space.

Since 2016, the Avenir Museum proudly welcomes CSU students and the regional community to exhibition and study facilities in state-of-the-art premises at the University Center for the Arts, where we now preserve and research some 20,000 artifacts of historic apparel and textiles.

Connect With Us Helpful Links

Asset 320 Plan Your Visit

The Avenir Museum includes five galleries located in three campus buildings.

Asset 29 Artifact Donation

Consider donating your historical artifacts to the Avenir Museum.

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We would love to hear from you. Please contact us with your questions or comments.

Make an Impact Make a Gift

Financial contributions to support our teaching mission, museum operations, collections, acquisitions, and outreach are always gratefully accepted.

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