Instructors from both the University and the wider community are welcome to hold classes in the galleries by prior arrangement. One Museum gallery always features a general panorama of American/European costume history. If necessary, teachers can make an appointment in advance with the Curator to discuss the topic they want to cover, or they may ask for a docent to lecture to their group.

Seen above is Roxanne Precopia, Assistant Professor at the Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, lecturing about garments of the Romantic era. The two 1820s silk gauze evening dresses she is pointing out are woven with a vertical satin stripe. They demonstrate the influence of the Romantic movement on fashion after the Neoclassicism of the First Empire. As Romanticism developed, sleeves and skirts grew wider and were more ornamented.