Costume Exhibition Services
JLN Costume Mounting LLC provides costume exhibition services to museums and collections throughout the United States.
With expertise in fashion history and a sensitivity to conservation concerns, JLN Costume Mounting LLC prioritizes accuracy and object safety to create beautiful, dynamic displays that bring your historic and modern costumes and accessories to life.
Now offering Introduction to Costume Mounting Workshops! Contact us to plan a workshop at your institution, or fill out our interest survey to help us plan future workshop offerings
Our Services
Dress designed by Diane von Furstenberg and worn by Whitney Houston, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Costume Mounting
From mannequin selection and modification to custom mounts and underpinnings, we can mount costumes and accessories from any era, for both display and photography
Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket at the Nantucket Historical Association. Photo: Bill Hoenk for NHA
Exhibition Installation
With experience in displays large and small and traveling costume exhibitions, we understand the complex logistics and challenges of installing costumes and accessories. We will work with you to make sure installation runs smoothly and your display is safe and attractive. We can also pack mannequins and costumes for travel.
Custom shoe mounts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Curatorial Support & Collections Care
Our services include curatorial research and exhibition planning support, as well as collections management and presentation conservation services including cataloging, archival storage solutions and custom storage mounts for costumes, accessories, and textiles.
Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket at the Nantucket Historical Association
Psychedelic Posters and Fashion of the 1960s at Portland Art Museum
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile at the Science History Institute
Radically Marimekko at the American Swedish Historical Museum
Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket at the Nantucket Historical Association
Corset on custom mount at the Whaling Museum, Nantucket Historical Association
Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket at the Nantucket Historical Association
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
Jeanne Lanvin dress c. 1924, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket at the Nantucket Historical Association
Summer on Nantucket the Nantucket Historical Association
Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket at the Nantucket Historical Association
Summer of Love: art, fashion, and rock and roll installation at the Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Muslim Fashions at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, NYC
Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket at the Nantucket Historical Association
Summer on Nantucket the Nantucket Historical Association
Second Skin: The Science of Stretch at the Chemical Heritage Foundation