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Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising

Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising Educational Spaces

Spaces include the Linda L. Carlson Classroom, Seminar Room and Reference Library, and research access to our Collections Storage.

Linda L. Carlson Classroom

The Linda L. Carlson Classroom (Room 157) is named in honor of the museum’s retired former curator, Linda L. Carlson. This space in the Avenir Museum building serves as formal teaching and learning space for CSU students enrolled in upper-division and graduate coursework such as Historic Textiles (AM363), Historic Costume (AM460), and Care and Exhibition of Museum Collections (DM563). Its spacious capacity also welcomes campus and community patron attendance at evening and weekend programs related to each semester’s gallery exhibits.

A large group of students gather to look at garments laid on a table in the Avenir classroom, one of their educational spaces.
An instructor teaches at the front of the classroom in one of the Avenir's educational spaces.
Researchers work on a blue ensemble while wearing white gloves

Avenir Museum Reading and Seminar Room with Reference Library

This noncirculating reference library space features primary and secondary sources on the history of apparel, fashion designers, global textiles, weaving, dyeing, and many other areas of inquiry and is also equipped with conference technology for virtual meetings. Please note that materials may not be checked out nor leave the building.

Appointments for access and use by both CSU and regional community members are scheduled through the Avenir Museum; availability varies by day, with drop-in public hours available on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. See schedule below for more detail.

Sundays: Closed
Mondays: Closed
Tuesdays: By appointment only.
Wednesdays: By appointment only.
Thursdays: drop-in from 1 – 5 p.m.
Fridays: drop-in from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturdays: drop-in from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 

Seminar Room with researcher studying textiles
Seminar room with conference table
Seminar room with a class

Research Access

Advance appointments to access Collections Storage may be made by researchers for academic inquiry or other purpose approved by the Curator/Collections Manager.

Your research credentials must be presented and approved by the Curator/Collections Manager before a reservation is confirmed and put on the research appointment calendar.

There is no charge for approved research appointments; credit to the Avenir Museum, Department of Design and Merchandising, Colorado State University is expected.

Please call (970) 491-1983 or email avenirmuseum@colostate.edu a minimum of four weeks before the requested date(s) of access.

A researcher working at a table
2 students examine a textile up close while wearing gloves while a third student takes notes