MoMu

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MoMu
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MoMu (Mode Museum) is the fashion museum of the City of Antwerp, Belgium and collects, conserves, studies and exhibits the largest collection of historical and contemporary designer fashion in Belgium, and holds the largest collection of Belgian fashion in the world. The museum focuses specifically on Belgian fashion designers and alumni of the Fashion Department due to the number of acclaimed designers who studied there during the 1980s and 1990s, including Martin Margiela and the Antwerp Six.

Since 2002, the museum has been located in the centre of Antwerp in the ModeNatie building on Nationalestraat. ModeNatie also houses Flanders District of Creativity, the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), and the Renaissance restaurant. Linda Loppa, MoMu's first director was also the founder and director of the Antwerp Fashion Department. MoMu's current director and chief curator is Kaat Debo. The museum is under the administration of Antwerp province.

Excerpt from Wikipedia: ModeMuseum Antwerpen · CC BY-SA 4.0

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