MUSEUMS
Haircombs, Fashion, Hairdressing, Art and Crafts
FRANCE
MUSÉE DU PEIGNE ET DES MATIÈRES PLASTIQUES
Centre Culturel, place Georges Pompidou.
01100 -Oyonnax
Contains mainly celluloid combs, made in different workshops during the golden age of the comb.
Collections Arbez-Carme, Clement Joyard, Auguste Bonaz. The museum also contains the magnificent collection gathered together by Robert Bollé. More than 5000 pieces.
MUSEE DU PEIGNE EN CORNE
Avenue Gambetta, BP 32.
27530 - Ezy-sur-Eure
Former comb factory. Ancient workshops to be visited. Small museum in the former home of the director. Rooms with a variety of acquisitions.
http://musee-du-peigne.pagesperso-orange.fr
MUSEE DU TEXTILE ET DU PEIGNE EN CORNE
09300 - Lavelanet
A few horn combs but a video on the making of a horn comb.
Visit also the last horn combs factory «Azéma-Bigou at Campredon (09300 Lesparrou).
http://museedutextile.free.fr/
MUSEE DE LA COIFFURE
Place de l'Eglise
89310 - Sainte-Vertu
http://www.lemuseedelacoiffure.com/
MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS DE PARIS
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 - Paris
Tél : 01 44 55 57 50
Métro : Palais Royal
Look for La galerie des Bijoux
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/
Thermes et hôtel de Cluny
6, place Paul Painlevé
75005 - Paris
A dozen liturgical medieval combs gathered together in one room
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/homes/home_id20392_u1l2.htm
MUSEE DU LOUVRE
Palais-Royal
75001 - Paris
Collection of combs from Ancient Egypt
MUSÉE LE SECQ DES TOURNELLES
2, rue Jacques Villon
76100 - Rouen
Cut steel combs (twenty pieces)
http://www.rouen-musees.com/Musee-le-Secq-des-Tournelles/Les-collections
MUSEE DUPUY-MESTREAU
4, rue Monconseil
17100 - Saintes
Approximately twenty combs from the French Empire period with semi-precious stones and tortoiseshell combs from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. It is worth seeing them if you are in the region.
http://saintes.ffsam.org/main.htm
CHATEAU-MUSEE DE DIEPPE
Rue de Chastes
76200 - Dieppe
You will see mostly ivory combs (no more than a dozen)
http://collections.musees-haute-normandie.fr/collections/
SPAIN
MUSEU FREDERIC MARES
Plaça de Sant Iu, 5,6
08002 Barcelone
One hundred combs previously displayed in the «Gabinet del coleccionista» sala femenina, but in storage today.
Please ask for an appointment with the curator.
http://w3.bcn.es/V69/Home/V69XMLHomeLinkPl/0,4737,695019883_697119766_1,00.html
PORTUGAL
CALOUSTE-GULBENKIAN MUSEUM
Av. de Berna 01
1050 Ns. de Fátima
Lisboa
You will find a great number of haircombs signed by Lalique.
http://www.museu.gulbenkian.pt
GERMANY
WELLA MUSEUM
Berliner Allee 65
64274 Darmstadt
SWITZERLAND
HAARUNDKAMM
Balsthalerstrasse 222
CH-4717 Mümliswil
Former combs factory
http://www.wanderland.ch/fr/sightseeing_detail.cfm?id=339494
UNITED KINGDOM
THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
South Kensington
London SW7 2RL
Silver & Jewellery Collections
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/index.html
USA
MILLER COMB MUSEUM
Homer, AK
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/16747
ARGENTINA
MUSEO HISTÓRICO BRIGADIER GENERAL CORNELIO DE SAAVEDRA
CRISÓLOGO LARRALDE 6309
BUENOS AIRES
Tel: 4572-0746 / 4574-1328
Fax: 4572-0746 / 4574-1328
Click on "Peineton"
http://www.acceder.gov.ar/es/buscador/cd:Museo_Historico_Brigadier_General_Cornelio_de_Saavedra.46
MUSEO DE ARTE HISPANO AMERICANO ISAAC FERNÁNDEZ BLANCO
Look for "Peineton"
http://www.museofernandezblanco.buenosaires.gov.ar/mifb_colecciones.htm
JAPAN
SAWANOI MUSEUM of Traditional Japanese Hair Ornaments
3-764-1 Yugi-machi, Oume-shi
Tokyo
The museum, based on a collection by Tomoko Okazaki, houses more than 4,000 items, dating from the Edo Period to the Showa Era, some 400 are on display.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fc20000826a1.html
If you ever know about other comb museums, please let us know their contact details. We will put them on this list.