Museu do Traje is housed by an architecturally modern building which was erected between 1954 and 1958. It is an austere building with accentuated vertical lines and was used as the city’s delegation of the Bank of Portugal until 1996. After being acquired by the City Hall in 1997, it welcomed the colour and joy of the Vianesa costume and continues its mission of studying and divulging the identity and ethnographic heritage of Viana do Castelo.