A textile museum is a museum with exhibits relating to the history and art of textiles, including:
textile industries and manufacturing, often located in former factories or buildings involved in the design and production of yarn, cloth, and clothing agriculture and farming related to textile materials such as silk, cotton, and wool functional use of textiles such as for clothing and bedding textiles used in decorative arts, such as for fashion, carpets, tapestries, embroidery, lace, and quilts the cultural and historical use of textiles in ceremonies, rituals, and other practices
Asia
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Carpet Museum Shusha Carpet Museum (and former Shushi Carpet Museum)
Bhutan
Bhutan Textile Museum
China
China National Silk Museum, Zheijiang Nantong Museum, Jiangsu Suzhou Silk Museum, Jiangsu
India
Calico Museum of Textiles National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi Sanskriti Museums
Indonesia
Pekalongan Batik Museum, Central Java Textile Museum (Jakarta), West Jakarta
Iran
Carpet Museum of Iran, Tehran
Iraq
Kurdish Textile Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan
Japan
Nishijin Textile Center Shiozawa Tsumugi Fabric Museum Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo Yokohama Silk Museum, Yokohama
Lebanon Bsous Silk Museum,
Malaysia National Textile Museum, Kuala Lumpur Textile Museum Sarawak, Kuching
South Korea Chojun Textile and Quilt Art Museum, Seoul Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, Seoul Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum, Seoul Museum of Korean Embroidery, Seoul
Thailand Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles, Thailand
Turkmenistan Turkmen Carpet Museum, Turkmenistan
Vietnam
Nam Định Textile Museum, Vietnam
Central America
Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing, Guatemala
Europe Belgium ModeMuseum Antwerpen Museum of Industry (Ghent)
Czech Republic Museum of Textile in Česká Skalice
Denmark Designmuseum Denmark
Finland Craft Museum of Finland
France Bargoin Museum Broderie de Fontenoy-le-Château, Vosges Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode, Pas-de-Calais Cité internationale de la tapisserie, Aubusson Gobelins Manufactory, Paris Textile Arts Museum, Lyon
Germany Augsburg textile and industry museum Bocholt textile museum LVR Industrial Museum Müller Cloth Mill Nordwolle Textilfabrik Cromford
Italy
Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo Museum of Textiles and Industry of Busto Arsizio Prato Textile Museum
The Netherlands De Museumfabriek Museum Het Leids Wevershuis, Leiden Textile Museum (Tilburg)
Norway The Textile Industry Museum, Bergen
Poland Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź Museum of Technology and Textile Industry Weaver's House Museum
Portugal Museu dos Têxteis, Castelo Branco
Romania National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
Spain Can Marfà Knitwear Museum, Catalonia mNACTEC, Catalonia Museo del Traje, Madrid Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària, Catalonia Premià de Mar Textile Printing Museum, Catalonia Textile Museum and Documentation Centre, Catalonia
Sweden Textile Museum of Borås
United Kingdom American Museum and Gardens, England Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Scotland Bancroft Shed, England Bankfield Museum, West Yorkshire, England Borders Textile Townhouse, Scotland Bradford Industrial Museum, England Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum, Devon, England Colne Valley Museum, West Yorkshire, England Dalgarven Mill – Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume, North Ayrshire, Scotland Derby Silk Mill, Derby, England Devonshire Collection of Period Costume Fan Museum, London Fashion and Textile Museum Fashion Museum, Bath, Somerset, England Friends Meeting House, Kendal, which houses the Quaker Tapestry Gayle Mill, North Yorkshire, England George Waterston Memorial Centre and Museum, Fair Isle, Scotland Hat Works, Greater Manchester, England Helmshore Mills Textile Museum (closed), Lancashire, England The Lace Guild Lewis Textile Museum (closed), Lancashire, England Low Mill, West Yorkshire, England Museum of Carpet, Worcestershire, England National Wool Museum, Carmarthenshire, Wales Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Scotland Paisley Thread Mill Museum, Scotland Pickford's House Museum, Derby, England Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire, England Queen Street Mill, Lancashire, England Quilt Museum and Gallery, York, England Shetland Museum, Scotland Shetland Textile Working Museum, Scotland Signal Tower Museum, Angus, Scotland The Silk Museum, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Cumbria, England Thwaite Mills, West Yorkshire, England Verdant Works, Dundee, Scotland Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (and Weaving for Walls exhibition) Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire, England Warner Textile Archive, Essex, England Weavers' Triangle, Lancashire, England Wellbrook Beetling Mill, Northern Ireland Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire, England
North America Canada Costume Museum of Canada, Manitoba Textile Museum of Canada, Ontario Wile Carding Mill, Nova Scotia
Mexico La Constancia Mexicana Museo de Trajes Regionales, Chiapas
United States American Textile History Museum, Massachusetts (closed) Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, Texas Bates Mill, Maine Belknap Mill Museum, New Hampshire Boott Mills, Massachusetts Brigham City Museum of Art & History, Utah Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, Massachusetts Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York The Cotton Museum, Tennessee Embroidery Museum and Resource Center, Kentucky The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia Falls Mill, Tennessee George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. Great Lakes Quilt Center, Michigan International Quilt Museum, Nebraska Kansas City Garment District Museum, Missouri LSU Museum of Art, Louisiana Marie Webster House, Indiana Museum of Work and Culture, Rhode Island National Quilt Museum, Kentucky New England Quilt Museum, Massachusetts Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum, Washington (state) Quadrangle (Springfield, Massachusetts) Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Colorado Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Florida San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, California Scottish Tartans Museum and Heritage Center, North Carolina Slater Mill, Rhode Island Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum, Georgia Stillwater Mill, Rhode Island Textile Heritage Museum, North Carolina Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site, Missouri Weaving Room of Crossnore School, North Carolina Western Reserve Historical Society, Ohio Willamette Heritage Center, Oregon Windham Textile and History Museum, Connecticut
Oceania
Ararat Gallery TAMA, Victoria, Australia National Wool Museum (Geelong), Australia
South America
Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco
See also
Fashion museum Lists of museums
References