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

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 online since 2007

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 online since 2007

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 Frequently Asked Questions.

Unforgettable

We have an eclectic collection of thousands of handbags, accessories, and purse-related ephemera.

vintage purses, vintage handbags, vintage, purses, handbags

Bedazzling

Our mission is to share the art and history of vintage handbags.

Our Sponsors

Frequently Asked Questions

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 3,500+ 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 and is not open to the public. However, 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's website and Photo and History Archive are entirely free to peruse! 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.


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Email vintagepursemuseum@gmail.com

The Vintage Purse Museum

Tucson, Arizona, United States

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