Architect wanted to design Bath fashion museum in listed former post office

Bath post office

The Fashion Museum, Bath moving from its current premises to neo-Georgian corner plot

Bath and North East Somerset council has started the search for an architect to create a new fashion museum inside a 1920s former post office.

The Fashion Museum, Bath has been housed in the grade I-listed Assembly Rooms in the city centre since the museum was founded in 1963. Its collection, which dates back to 1600, attracts around 100,000 visitors a year.

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