Apparently The Metroplitan Museum of Art has caught on to the fact that we all love to blog about it’s Costume Institute and decided to get in on the action. With “blog.mode: addressing fashion”, WWD reports, the museum hopes to create an instant discourse about the clothes, with computer terminals at a “blog bar” right there in the musuem. About 40 costumes will be on display from the museum’s permanent collection, some of which have never been on show.

The museum curator’s office will monitor and participate in the blog, responding to the public’s posts as appropriate. This particular idea appeals to us as an educational tool, it seems to open up the floor to ask questions about the pieces and learn from experts that museum patrons rarely have access to.

“People will be able to comment on pieces in real time,” curator Andrew Bolton told WWD. “It is for us to engage more immediately with our visitors and to create more of a dynamic dialogue about fashion.”

Hey, that’s what we’re trying to do to! There is certainly something gratifying and legitimizing about blogging as a medium and creative art that The Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting in on it. And starting with fashion, no less! How cool!

The pieces above are, left to right, a 1947 Adrian piece inspired by Salvador Dali, a 2005 John Galliano for Christian Dior Couture dress, and a 1938 harlequin coat by Elsa Schiaparelli