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Our e-calendar, available to Members and Non-Members alike, is designed to keep our supporters informed about happenings and upcoming events at Pasadena Museum of History.
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Upcoming Events
 Dressed in Diamonds: American Princesses & Gilded Age Fashion
Tuesday, January 19, 6:30 pm
Join Kevin Jones, Curator at the FIDM Museum, for a fascinating lecture on the opulent fashion of The Gilded Age. Jones will discuss the layers of elaborate dresses and overlapping jewels worn by the 'Dollar Princess' daughters of the era's most prominent 'Robber Barons.' Read more. . .
 Annual Meeting - Members Only
Saturday, January 23, 10:30 am
PMH Members are invited to attend the 91st Annual Meeting in the Giddings Conference Room. Join us for the 2015 year-end reports from the Board President and senior staff. Continental breakfast will be served. Read more. . .  Gatsby's Women: Fashionable Ideals of the 1920s
Tuesday, January 26, 6:30 pm
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, reflects a time of dramatic feminine transformation. Christina Johnson, Associate Curator at the FIDM Museum, will provide an overview of jazz age fashion, Hollywood film icons, and 1920s high society. Read more. . .
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Current Exhibition
Fabulous Fashion - Decades of Change: 1890s, 1920s, & 1950s
Kathryne Beynon Foundation Exhibition Hall
Open through February 14, 2016
From the uncomfortable corsets and ornate bodices of the 1890s to the deconstructed freedom of the 1920s to the full skirts and bullet bras of the 1950s, fashion trends in Pasadena followed the rest of the country. Represented by over 40 garments, these fashions emerged in response to sweeping changes in society, economics, and lifestyle for women. Read more. . .
 The exhibition is made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division. Fabulous Fashion is also supported by French Hand Laundry, PMH's Textile Arts Council, Style on Green, High Low Vintage, New Moon Textiles, Roberta Dumas, Suzanne Ehrmann, Elissa De Angelo, Dr. Elizabeth Smalley, Susan Stevens, and Ann Wallace.
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Tournament Connection - Museum Store
Don't forget that the Museum Store sells Tournament of Roses� merchandise! From polo shirts to programs to pins and more, the Museum Store offers a variety of Tournament of Roses� souvenirs.
Are you a PMH Member? Your member discount is applicable toward Tournament of Roses� merchandise.
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Our Mission
The Mission of the Museum is to promote an appreciation of history, culture, arts, and sciences relevant to Pasadena and adjoining communities.
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