Costume Society of America

The Costume Society of America (CSA) will present a series of intensive training programs focused on the specialized care and preservation of costume and textile collections in small museums and historical societies. CSA will offer annual preservation training workshops for 150 museum professionals over three years at sites in New Orleans, Phoenix, and Kansas City. The one-day workshops will provide needed access to information, demonstrations, publications, specialized procedures, and practical applications. Additionally, in each host city, 20 highly experienced professionals—the CSA Angels—will donate their services to a single institution for a full workday, assisting the staff of a small museum to tackle a specific project such as identification, documentation, repair, stabilization, or appropriate storage solutions within their collections.