Support us
Why support the Fashion & Lace Museum?
The Museum’s missions
A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage, according to the definition of ICOM, the International Council of Museums
Funding for culture and museums
The Fashion & Lace Museum preserves the textile heritage, mainly collecting examples from Brussels and Belgium. Objects of this kind are among the most fragile and the hardest to preserve. Several items undergo extensive restoration every year, both in order to be put on display in temporary exhibitions and to take proper care of them. The objective is to preserve this heritage so that it can be passed on to future generations in the best possible condition.
Restoration work is meticulous and highly specialised, and represents a significant expense for the museum.
Contribute to the restoration effort
The museum is calling on your generosity to help us restore the textile heritage optimally and contribute to its preservation.
The collections continue to grow as contemporary textile materials diversify exponentially. Uncertainty about how they will age causes difficulties: pieces from the 19th and the turn of the 20th century show more significant ageing of the material than pieces from the 18th century. This is therefore a huge undertaking, and the museum can no longer cover the cost of restoring pieces from its collections by itself.
How can I support the museum?
Since its creation, the Fashion & Lace Museum has been keen to maintain a unique relationship with its visitors through private viewings, late-night openings, guided tours and fashion lessons . The museum now wishes to strengthen this link by inviting visitors to become active supporters of its heritage conservation work. The museum has created a network bringing together fashion and lace enthusiasts: the Friends of the Fashion & Lace Museum.
Are you interested in fashion, the history of clothing and heritage conservation? Are you a student of fashion or fashion design? Do you want to get involved in the conservation of historical textiles and discover what goes on behind the scenes at the museum?
Several options are available to you:
Friends
Launch in 2025
Donations
You wish to donate:
- clothes
- documents relating to fashion (magazine, posters, etc.)
- fashion accessories to the Brussels Fashion & Lace Museum
We already thank you for your generosity.
SPONSORS
The Museums of the City of Brussels form a network of enriching and fascinating museum institutions that retrace, each in its own way, the history of Brussels: the Brussels City Museum, the Fashion & Lace Museum, the GardeRobe Manneken-Pis, the Sewer Museum.
Our philanthropic actions are based on three pillars:
- the acquisition of significant works;
- the restoration of works from museum collections;
- the development of cultural mediation tools aimed at young people.
The Fund of the Friends of the Museums of the City of Brussels was set up on the initiative of philanthropist friends and is managed by the King Baudouin Foundation. The fund aims to support the Museums’ projects.
You can make your donation directly on the King Baudouin Foundation platform, a page of which is dedicated to our museums: it is here
Donations of €40 or more per year to the Foundation are eligible for a tax reduction of 45% of the actual amount donated (art. 145/33 CIR).
