You can relive Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at Arlington art museum’s career-spanning exhibit
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Texas Swifties with the post concert blues can get another glimpse into 12-time Grammy award-winner Taylor Swift’s decades-long career with a new Arlington Museum of Art exhibit.
“Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Collection” opens at the Arlington Museum of Art, 201 W Main St. in Arlington, June 3 and runs through Sept. 24.
The exhibit features original costumes, photographs, videos and more representing Swift’s creative periods, or eras, throughout the years. Exhibit highlights include eight costumes worn by Swift from her albums Midnights, folklore, Red (Taylor’s Version) and Fearless (Taylor’s Version).
Kendall Quirk, Registrar and Director of Exhibitions at Arlington Museum of Art, said museum staff has already seen high demand for the exhibit with excitement from around the country.
“We’re really proud of that and excited to have people who maybe are not familiar with Arlington here this summer,” she said.
Swift brought her Eras Tour to AT&T Stadium in Arlington from March 31 to April 2, playing a three-hour show with 44 songs all three nights. She also played shows in Houston later in April.
The Eras Tour includes songs from across Swift’s ten albums, each of which represent a different “era” of her career.
Quirk is a Swift fan, made apparent by her lavender colored dress — reminiscent of one of many outfits Swift wears during her Eras Tour shows — that she wore during an exhibit preview event Thursday.
Typically she takes a lot of time researching an exhibiting artist and topic, but this time Quirk said she was able to jump into the project loaded with prior knowledge which helped her conceptualize the exhibit.
Wear along the bottom of a pair of tall black boots in the “Fearless” section gives a hint at Swift’s first headlining tour. A green plaid dress worn by Swift during her Disney+ concert film performance of “folklore” takes fans back to Long Pond Studios.
The outfits are artifacts of Swift’s career and while the clothes may be on headless mannequins, fan’s will no doubt recognize the pieces — and maybe even the songs she performed in them.
“Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Collection” was planned six months prior to its opening, but how the collaboration came to be is a little more secret.
“It’s been just a really great collaboration with them, so that’s kind of all I’ll say,” Quirk said. “We’re really excited to have it and I hope that it’s a really exciting summer and I really think it will be based on the response that we’ve been getting from people ahead of time.”
Tickets for “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Collection” are on sale now.
Tickets prices are:
$20 for ages 18-54
$15 for guests 55 and older
$15 for ages 13-17
$5 for guests ages 2-12 and military members with valid ID
Free for infants under 2
A $5 per person rate is also available for groups over 10.
Museum members get free admission tickets.
