Closely linked to the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising at Kent State, the Museum holds important collections of fashion and decorative arts, numbering more than 20,000 objects.
The collection of historic, contemporary, and world fashions is supplemented by extensive holdings of American glass, fine furniture, textiles, paintings and other decorative arts, to give context to the study of design.
Eight galleries feature temporary exhibitions of work by many of the world's great artists and designers.