Showcasing the art and history
of handbags since 2007
Showcasing the art and history
of handbags since 2007
The Vintage Purse Museum is an extraordinary real-life collection, viewable online from anywhere in the world. Scroll down for Frequently Asked Questions.
We have an eclectic collection of thousands of handbags, accessories, and purse-related ephemera.
Our mission is to share the art and history of vintage handbags.
Please reach us at vintagepursemuseum@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
We don't sell our artifacts as they are all part of The Vintage Purse Museum collection. Many of our 3,000+ handbags, accessories, and purse-related ephemera are viewable online, at no charge, via our Photo and History Archive and on our social media, including Facebook, TikTok and Instagram.
We source our acquisitions on our own and generally do not purchase handbags offered to us via email or our social media pages. The Vintage Purse Museum is not a nonprofit, so we do not receive grants or funding. Therefore, we have an extremely limited budget. Sometimes we get donations of handbags, for which we are grateful, but our generous donors are informed that this is a privately-owned collection. We always tell those wishing to donate a handbag to first ask their local museum, fashion school, or theatre group if they are accepting donations of handbags.
The collection is privately housed in Tucson, Arizona. Our online museum concept, which began in 2007, consists of photos of our purses and accessories, as well as accompanying educational facts and historical articles. This makes it a unique and accessible destination for our global patrons.
The Vintage Purse Museum is entirely free! We have sponsored ads on our website, but this does not cover costs of labor, acquisitions, web hosting or annual subscriptions to the newspaper and genealogy sites we use for research. So why do we do it? For the love of vintage fashion! We established The Vintage Purse Museum to share information about vintage handbags and their histories with anyone anywhere in the world.
© 2012-2024 Wendy Dager/The Vintage Purse Museum. All Rights Reserved. Please request permission to use photos and information, vintagepursemuseum@gmail.com.
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