The Vintage Purse Museum
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    • Welcome
    • About Us
    • Photo and History Archive
    • RV Purse Museum
    • Pain In The Purse
    • Museum Store
The Vintage Purse Museum
  • Welcome
  • About Us
  • Photo and History Archive
  • RV Purse Museum
  • Pain In The Purse
  • Museum Store

Welcome to The Vintage Purse Museum

Welcome to The Vintage Purse MuseumWelcome to The Vintage Purse MuseumWelcome to The Vintage Purse Museum

Showcasing the art and history of handbags

Welcome to The Vintage Purse Museum

Welcome to The Vintage Purse MuseumWelcome to The Vintage Purse MuseumWelcome to The Vintage Purse Museum

Showcasing the art and history of handbags

Vintage Purse Museum Photo and History Archive

Feast Your Eyes

Fabulous

The Vintage Purse Museum is an extraordinary real-life collection, viewable online from anywhere in the world. Scroll down for FAQ.

Unforgettable

We have an eclectic collection of handbags, accessories and ephemera.

vintage purses, vintage handbags, vintage, purses, handbags

Bedazzling

Our mission is to share photos and histories of vintage purses.

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The Vintage Purse Museum is a certified trade name in the State of Arizona

Email info@vintagepursemuseum.com

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Tucson, Arizona, United States

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Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at info@vintagepursemusem.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 2,000+ handbags, accessories and purse-related ephemera are viewable online, at no charge, via our photo and history archive. With regard to acquisitions, we find them 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 and does not receive grants or funding, so we have an extremely limited budget. Sometimes we get donations of handbags, for which we are grateful, but our generous donors are always informed that this is a privately-owned collection.

The collection is privately housed in Tucson, Arizona. However, our online museum concept, which began in 2012, consists of photos of our purses and accessories as well as accompanying educational facts and historical articles. This makes it an unusual and accessible destination for our global patrons.

The Vintage Purse Museum is entirely free! We have sponsored ads on our websites (also, curator Wendy Dager wrote a book about the 1944-1965 handbag tax; available on Amazon), but this does not cover costs of labor, acquisitions, web hosting or annual subscriptions to the newspaper and genealogy sites we use for our 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.

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Pain in The Purse: The Tax That Changed Handbag History

By Wendy Dager, curator of The Vintage Purse Museum, now on Amazon in paperback and ebook.