Elena Aldobrandini Textile and Fashion Museum — Attraction in Naples

Very interesting place for fashion lovers. Many beautiful costumes where You can see interesting details. Museum is on 2 floors and You can see freely exhibition alone or You can rent audioguide for 2 euro. There are also some interesting sewing machines like one for making gloves, with some examples of it before and after. Some rooms are about textiles and compositions of them. The staff is very helpfull and nice, helped us to buy an online tickets, because You can buy it only by cash or online, no credit cards. Place...

This is a hidden gem in Naples. A diverse and beautiful selection of clothes. There was a slight lack of information and the audio guide, though great to have it in English, could have been more clear which room and piece it was talking about. The staff were really friendly and welcoming. The curation was brilliant and the way everything was presented was creative...

Consiglio il bellissimo "Museo della Moda" di Napoli, dedicato alla fondatrice dell’istituzione, la nobildonna Elena Aldobrandini (1589 – 1663), ripercorre la Storia della Moda, descritta, in un ampio arco temporale, dal Settecento ai giorni nostri. Concetti e contenuti ben in mostra, esibiti attraverso le trasformazioni, alcune graduali, altre radicali, che hanno caratterizzato, il modo di agghindarsi della donna e le pratiche legate alla presentazione di sé e al risultato della sua vestizione. Museo unico nella tipologia e nella straordinaria varietà del suo ingente posseduto. Non solo opere tessili, non solo haute couture o prêt-à-porter, non solo manufatti finiti con chiara destinazione d’uso, al pari di abiti da cocktail o da sposa con accessori, quali: cappelli, borse, guanti, ventagli, parasole e piume. Ma, anche: colletti, jabot, ritagli di passamanerie, imparaticci, intarsi...