SCHOOL TRIP: MUSEO DEL TRAJE

The Museo del Traje (Spanish: Museo del Traje) is a museum located in Madrid, Spain, with collections devoted to fashion and costumes. The museum has over 160,000 pieces and documents. The current building was completed in 1973.^[2] Collections date from the Middle Ages up to clothes by Spain's contemporary fashion designers. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1962. The current Museo del Traje dates from 2004. The building was built as the home of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (MEAC), later to become the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.  A restoration of the building was carried out  in 2005, allowing the building to become the home of the Museo del Traje.