Dr Emily Taylor, Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts at National Museums Scotland, and Dr Fiona Salvesen Murrell, Paxton House’s own knowledgeable Consultant Curator, have been writing about the costume collection at Paxton House.  The article describes many of the new discoveries they made in 2022 in cataloging and researching the costume collection at Paxton, discovering new items, linking existing items to their owners and establishing the scope and size of the collection.  Read the article here.

The research was made possible by the Art Fund’s Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant