Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising

The Avenir features several new exhibits every academic year. We welcome our regional community to visit our exhibits and participate in our lecture series.  The Avenir is FREE and open to the public. We have four galleries in two locations across the CSU campus.

We welcome CSU students and the regional community to exhibition and study facilities in state-of-the-art premises, where we now preserve and research some 20,000 artifacts of historic apparel and textiles.

The 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.

Today, 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.