Well-known brands do their best to maintain prestige. Own museum is one of the ways to show the whole world that things of some brands are worthy of becoming exhibits worthy of admiration of the public.
In our selection today Top 10 museums of famous brands. Each of the museums is distinguished by an original idea, a creative approach and the fabulous cost of exhibits.
10. Swarowski Museum
This palace-museum was opened in 1995 in the Austrian city of Wattense for the centennial of the brand. The entrance to the museum is decorated in the form of a giant head, from whose mouth a waterfall erupts. On average, about 700 thousand people visit the Swarowski Museum annually.
9. Cristobal Balenciaga Museum
This museum was opened in 2011 in Getaria (Spain). The museum is located in a 19th-century palace. Since Balenciaga created toilets for representatives of the European aristocracy, members of royal families and Hollywood stars, the museum has many true luxury items.
8. Gucci Museum
The museum was opened in Florence in 2011. The museum occupies three floors of a unique medieval palazzo in Signoria square. Fashion fans will see Jacqueline Kennedy’s favorite handbag, Grace Kelly’s silk scarf and Brad Pitt’s suede shoes.
7. Herm? S Museum
You can only visit this apartment museum in Paris by prior arrangement or by invitation. Here are collected items of bourgeois and aristocratic life, meticulously selected and preserved by the Erme family. Visitors are interested in clamps for mustaches, wooden canes, pince-nez, tweezers, umbrellas and even the crew of the Duke of Windsor.
6. Salvatore Ferragamo Museum
The museum is located in Florence on the square of the Holy Trinity. Here you can learn more about the history of the creation of wedges, platform shoes and square heels. Among the 10 thousand models presented at the museum there are Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn shoes.
5. Kokichi Mikimoto Museum
The museum of the founder of the pearl house Mikimoto is located on several islands in Ise Bay. The secrets of pearl cultivation, historical objects, and personal belongings of the Mikimoto family are of interest. Especially popular is the show of Japanese divers - pearl hunters, which is held daily in the summer.
4. Museum Museum Christian Dior
The museum is located in the family nest of the Dior family - in the villa Les Rhumbs in the town of Granville. Here, original items, furniture, and interior items belonging to the legendary couturier are preserved.
3. Valentino Museum
This 3D museum is located on the Internet at www.valentinogaravanimuseum.com. To view 300 items of clothing and 5 thousand pictures and photographs, you need to install a special application. Each exhibit is supplemented with information about its creation. So, in the museum you can find out the story of Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress or Elizabeth Taylor's evening dress.
2. Museum Breguet
Breguet watches are a symbol of luxury and belonging to the highest class. The creations of the legendary Breguet were exhibited in the Hermitage, the Louvre, the Swiss National Museum and even in the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin. The brand’s own museum in Paris presents technical drawings, certificates, as well as letters from Alexander I, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sultan Selim the Third and other famous customers with an order description.
1. Luxottica Museum
A recognized world leader in the production of frames and sunglasses almost does not exhibit its products in its own museum. On the contrary, there are collected telescopes, monocles, lornets, microscopes, instruments for measuring vision and glasses of various eras. The museum has 2,000 exhibits.
