Disney Archives Costume Exhibit Headed to Detroit Museum
Earlier today, the Walt Disney Archives annouced the next stop on its incredible “Heroes & Villains: The Art of The Disney Costume” exhibit. Beginning June 25, 2022, the exquisite collection will make its next stop at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan. The exciting news was announced on the D23 Facebook page.
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The exhibit, which will run for almost six months, will remain at the unique museum until January 1, 2023. First debuting at the D23 Expo in 2019, the collection features 70 original pieces from a variety of Disney films. The galleries are organized within three themes: “Disney Villains,” “Disney Heroes,” and “Spaces Between” for those characters that blur the lines between good and evil.
“Using more than 70 original pieces, including ball gowns, sorcerers’ capes, military uniforms, tiaras, and of course glass slippers, the exhibition explores the vision, process, and craft used to create the costumes worn by some of the biggest names in entertainment. Heroes and Villains features costumes from some of Disney’s kindest heroes and toughest villains, as well as insights from designers, photographs, interactives, and a special film,” according to the Museum of Pop Culture’s website. The exhibit orignated at the Seattle-based museum earlier this year.
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Among many others, ensembles from a series of “Cinderella” films are featured as well as costumes from “Beauty and the Beast,” “Enchanted,” “Mary Poppins” as well as “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Hocus Pocus,” and “Maleficent,” acccording to Disney fan club, D23.
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Planning a Trip to the Costume Exhibit
The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation is part of The Henry Ford, a registered National Historic Landmark in Dearborn, Michigan just outside of Detroit. Among the extensive collections featured at the museum, the Henry Ford boasts the Ford Theatre chair sat in by Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Park’s bus, the presidential limo of former president John F. Kennedy, and a new permanent exhibit titled, “Driven to Win: Racing in America.” Greenfield Village, the 80-acre living museum situated next door, includes the Wright Brothers home and cycle shop, Ford’s Bagley Avenue Workshop as well as buildings from Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory.
