Confessions of a Curator: Fashioning Fido

We're back with another edition of Confessions of a Curator, blog entries written by our Curators about their ongoing projects and special interests. Dog lovers, it's your lucky day: Associate Curator Christina Johnson treats us to a history of... Read Article ››

Sun-Drenched Style: Louella Ballerino

We are less than one month from the opening of our FIDM Orange County campus exhibition Sun-Drenched Style: California Mid-Century Women Designers. We hope you'll join us for the opening day event on November 12, where you can enjoy California... Read Article ››

Seeking Spring 2017 Museum Intern

Intern with the FIDM Museum! We are currently seeking a talented and motivated intern to assist with a variety of projects. Assignments may include exhibition installation, curatorial research, object cataloguing, or digital asset management. Previous interns... Read Article ››

Intern Report: Maurice Levin Archive

We love it when our interns can combine their passions with hands-on experience, so we were particularly happy to welcome archivist-in-training Sandy Lu to the FIDM Museum this summer. Sandy processed the Museum's Maurice Levin Archive,... Read Article ››

Intern Report: Kasia Stempniak

We are exceptionally lucky at the FIDM Museum to have the help of talented interns and volunteers throughout the year. This summer, we were thrilled to welcome Kasia Stempniak as our intern, who worked on curatorial research... Read Article ››

The Royal Company of Archers

We have fully embraced Olympic Fever here at the FIDM Museum, and we are eager to share sporting objects in our Collection that correspond with the Games! Today we're highlighting an early 19th century coat worn by the Royal Company of Archers in... Read Article ››

Outlan-dish

Have you had a chance to view our new Art of Outstanding Television Costume Design exhibition? Here's your chance to enjoy the show and mingle with fellow costume fans. Join us for a morning of traditional treats in celebration of... Read Article ››

An Evening with Terry Dresbach

Preparations are underway for our annual Art of Television Costume Design exhibition, opening to the public on August 2, 2016. We showed you a behind-the-scenes shot of Creative Director Peter Lam's scale model of our galleries as he develops... Read Article ››

ManMode: Dressing the Male Ego

In our last Confessions of a Curator post, Associate Curator Christina Johnson shared her behind-the-scenes process of putting together the next FIDM Museum History Gallery exhibition: ManMode: Dressing the Male Ego. The exhibition will examine three... Read Article ››

“Women are Armed with Fans…”

Look closely at any 18th or 19th European century painting depicting court life – chances are, there is a woman somewhere in the vignette artfully displaying an ornate fan. It is an accessory that we rarely think of today, yet just one hundred years ago, a... Read Article ››
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