If you come to Worn stories - Fashion and costume around 1900, also visit the permanent exhibition Ambition & Longing- Breda in the 19th century. Both focus on the same significant period.
In Ambition & Longing you will learn how the rise of industry with factories like De Etna, Backer & Rueb and Kwatta changed the face of the city. The impact of modernization is also great for residents, and by no means always in a positive sense. There is a counter movement from the arts: a longing for the past that expresses itself in romantic paintings and drawings by painters.
In Worn stories, this time of change is illuminated through the museum's clothing collection and the people who belong to it.
The Klep family, for example, plays a role in both exhibitions. They are the founders of the highly successful De Etna company, which became best known for its stoves and stoves. Thanks to the stories and family albums that have been preserved, we now get a good idea of the life they led, what they looked like and what went with their stand. In the work of the romantic painters who went to the countryside around Breda to capture the peasant population, you can see the people and their clothing that is also reflected in the exhibition Carried stories. And so there are other parallels in both exhibitions.