AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITIONS

NEW SOUTH WALES

10 May to 27 June 2025

Quilt Show by the Material Girls

Outback Art Gallery, Coonamble

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19 May to 27 June 2025

Waste + Art Net Wast Competition

Outback Art Gallery Coonamble in conjunction with above quilt show

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1 to 27 May 2025

That Which Is Around Us

Gallery 76, Concord West

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1 to 27 May 2025

Pinned

Gallery 76, Concord West

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2 to 26 May 2025

Connections and a Gold Dress

Gallery 76, Concord West

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Until 22 June 2025

Linda Sok: Reincarnation of an Altar Cloth

Cambelltown Arts Centre, Cambelltown

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until 13 July 2025

Tamworth Textile Trianneal, Reside and Response

Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie

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until 11 May 2025

Contours and Contrasts by Louis Parish Evans

Timeless Textiles Gallery, Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW
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14 May to 22 June 2025

Under the Surface by Sylvia Watt

Timeless Textiles Gallery, Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW

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Virtual exhibition

TEX STYLE 2025

Presented by the Technology Educators Association of NSW and hosted at Gallery 76, 76 Queen Street Concord West

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until 27 June 2025

The Back to Black

Historic Saumarez Homestead in Armidale

100 years of black garments

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30 May to 28 July 2025

Threading Lightly

Gallery 76, Concord West

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10 July to 16 August 2025

New Exuberance: Contemporary Australian Textile Design

Australian Design Centre, Darlinghurst 
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QUEENSLAND

until 4 May 2025

Conversations with Nature

Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville 

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16 May to 3 August 2025

Transfer

University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Sippy Downs

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SOUTH AUSTRALIA

4 May – 1 June 2025

Saturdays and Sundays only – tickets sold at the door

What the Working Classes Wore

Beaumont House, 31 Glynburn Road, Beaumont, SA

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until 29 June 2025 

Morris & Co | An Adelaide obsession

Carrick Hill, Adelaide, SA

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VICTORIA

until 10 May 2025

Prick! Needlework Now

RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

Artwork using stitching as part of the design

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until 24 May 2025

Slow Colour 

Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW)

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until 22 June 2025

Reincarnation of an Altar Cloth

Campbelltown Arts Centre

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until 13 July 2025

Frida Kahlo, In Her Own Image

Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC

Her fashion collection, makeup, accessories and medical items

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7 June to 20 July 2025

Night Talk by Fiona Currey-Billyard

Gallery 2, Wangaratta Art Gallery, VIC

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24 May to 17 August 2025

Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2025

Gallery 1, Wangaratta Art Gallery, VIC

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until 30 August 2025

Material cause: art x textiles

Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo,VIC

Artist Jordan Gogos has used salvaged and gifted deadstock fabric

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until 26 January 2026

Martin Grant 
Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC

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4 June to 5 October 2025

Kimono 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

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AUSTRALIAN MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES that have textile/fashion exhibitions

NEW SOUTH WALES

Saturday and Sunday
10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Australian Museum of Clothing and Textiles
75 Church Street, Maitland, NSW
mgnsw.org.au/organisations/australian-museum-clothing-and-textiles/

Monday to Friday

    9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Saturday and Sunday

    10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Closed Public Holidays

Gallery 76

Queen Street, Concord West, NSW

Dedicated Textile and Fibre Art Gallery 

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Wednesday to Sunday
10:30 am to 4:30 pm

QTOPIA
Darlinghurst,  Sydney, NSW
LGBTQIA community
Costumes by Michael Gates and Tim Chappell
qtopiasydney.com.au/

Wednesday to Saturday

    10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Sunday

    10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Timeless Textiles Gallery
Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW
timelesstextiles.com.au

QUEENSLAND

Sundays

9:30 am to 3:30 pm

or by appointment (except Tuesdays)

Templin Museum - Madam Weigel, House of Fashion

Templin, QLD

templinhistoricalmuseum.com.au

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Wednesday to Sunday

     11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Fabrik Arts + Heritage

Old Woollen Mill, 1 Adelaide, Lobethal Road, Lobethal, SA

https://fabrik.org.au/

Tuesday to Saturday
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
closed public holidays

Pepper Street Gallery
558 Magill Road, Magill, SA
https://www.burnside.sa.gov.au/Community-Recreation/Community-Venues/Pepper-Street-Arts-Centre

10:00am to 5:00pm

except Christmas Day

1st Friday of every month open until 9:00pm

Art gallery of South Australia

North Terrace, Adelaide

http://www.agsa.sa.gov.au 

VICTORIA

Thursday to Saturday
10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Park Street, South Melbourne, VIC
austapestry.com.au/

Daily
10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Bendigo Art Gallery
View Street, Bendigo, VIC
bendigoregion.com.au/bendigo-art-gallery

Tuesday to Friday
     11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Saturday

     11:00 am to 4:00 pm

closed public holidays

Craft Victoria
Watson Place, Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC
craft.org.au

Daily
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Museum of Vehicle Evolution (MOVE)
7723 Golburn Valley Hwy, Kialla, VIC
Has a costume collection covering the history of Australin everyday fasion from 1770s to 2000.
moveshepparton.com.au/

Museums Victoria
...a website for Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Immigration Museum and Royal Exhibition Building
Online shopping
museumsvictoria.com.au

Daily
10:00 am to 5:00 pm

National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne, VIC
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au

Monday to Friday
     10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Saturday to Sunday
     10:00 am to 1:00 pm
closed public holidays

The Embroiderers' Guild
Victoria Embroidery House, Wattletree Road, Malvern, VIC
embroiderersguildvic.org

Monday to Friday
     10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Satuday to Sunday
     10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Warrnambool Art Gallery
Liebig Street, Warrnambool, VIC

Daily
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Adults - $12, Concession - $9

Wool Museum
Geelong, VIC
The story of wool, fibre and textiles.  Has a range of contemporary exhibitions.
geelongaustralia.com.au/nwm/

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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Belgium

Canada

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany
Google Arts Project
Hong Kong

India

Ireland, Republic of
Italy

Japan

Netherlands

Switzerland

United Kingdom

USA

BELGIUM

Permanent exhibition

Tuesday to Sunday
10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Fashion from the MoMu Collection
MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp
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until 8 June 2025

Jan-Jan Van Essche Khayal

MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp

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until 3 August 2025

Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair

MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp

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until 18 January 2026

40 + Years Stijl

Fashion & Lace Museum, Brussels

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CANADA

until 17 August 2025

Costume Balls

McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal

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until 26 October 2025

Rough and Ready: A History of the Cowboy Boot

Bata Shoe Museum

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DENMARK

Permanent exhibition

Powerful Patterns

Design Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen

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22 May to 19 October 2025

The Power of Print

Design Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen

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FINLAND

Permanent exhibition

A Journey in Time - 2000 years of craft
Craft Museum of Finland, Jyvaskyla
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Permanent exhibition

Dressed with Pride
Craft Museum of Finland, Jyvaskyla
The history and modernity of Finnish national dress.
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Permanent exhibition

The City of Colourful Cloth

Forssa Museum, Forssa

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Permanent exhibition

The Pattern Centre

Forssa Museum, Forssa

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until 31 August 2025

Rya Rug Now

Craft Museum of Finland

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Until 14 September 2025

Maija Lavonen – Quietly Monumental

Design Museum, Helsinki

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until 5 October 2025

Traditions across borders

Craft Museum of Finland, Jyvaskyla

Photos of national costumes and traditional gloves from Estonia, Finland and Latvia

more info...

13 September to 7 December 2025

The Piri Blue and Other Colours

Craft Museum of Finland

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10 October 2025 to 1 March 2026

Stiffened Silk Caps in National Costume

Craft Museum of Finland, Jyvaskyla

Traditional headwear

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FRANCE

until 21 July 2025

Louvre Couture

The Louvre, Paris

65 outfits & 20 accessories displayed amongst the art

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until 7 September 2025

Fashion on the Move #3

Palais Galliera, Paris

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until 1 June 2025

Paris: A City of Pearls

LECOLE School of Jewelery Arts @ Hotel de Mercy-Argenteau, Paris

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5 June to 14 September 2025

Bamboo from Pattern to Work

Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

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until 9 November 2025

The Ambition of Beauty

Musee d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint Etienne

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Until 2 November 2025

Dior Jardins Enchanters

Musee Christion Dior, Granville

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28 June 2025 to 4 January 2026

Rick Owens, Temple of Love

Palais Galliera, Paris

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25 June 2025 to 11 January 2026

Paul Poiret, Fashion is a Feast

Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

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GERMANY

Permanent exhibition

A Space for Applied Arts, Fashion and Design
Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin
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Permanent exhibition

Man-Machine-Pattern-Fashion
Textile and Industry Museum (TIM), Augsburg
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ongoing

From Fibre to Fashion – the tour through the TIM.

Textile and Industry Museum, Augsburg

Booked tour for either patterns, fashion or industrialisation, 1¹/₂ hrs

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Until 1 June 2025

The Art of Making 2025, Arts, Crafts and Design from Paris and Berlin

Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin

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Until 14 December 2025

Fashion from Paris, A donation of Erica Hoffmann

Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin

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Permanent exhibition

A Space for Applied Arts, Fashion and Design

Museum of Decorative Arts

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10 October 2025 to 1 February 2026

Many Shades of Gres

Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin

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until 10 August 2025

Always with you: THE BAG

Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach

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GOOGLE ARTS PROJECT

An online collaboration of 180 museums and fashion institutions

We Wear Culture
The stories behind what we wear.
Explore over 400 stories by curators from leading institutions around the world.

online virtual reality tours

Simone Handbag Museum

The world's first museum dedicated to handbags.  The museum in Korea closed in 2021 an digitised the spaces of the museum to keep them alive in online tours 

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HONG KONG

Permanent exhibition

Welcome to the Spinning Factory!

Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile (CHAT)

A brief history of Hong Kong’s textile industry, vintage cotton products, archival documents and objects.
You are able to create your own cotton label.

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INDIA

Permanent exhibition

Indian Textile Gallery
National Crafts Museum, Delhi
Take an online 3D tour

Permanent exhibition

Textile Gallery
Indian Museum, Kolkata
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Vimor Museum of Living Textiles,Bengaluru,

able to touch and feel different types of yarn. Try loom weaving and try on fabrics.

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IRELAND, REPUBLIC OF

Permanent exhibition

The Way We Wore
National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin
Clothing and jewellery from 1760 to 1960
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Ongoing
Free admission

Ib Jorgensen, A Fashion Retrospective
National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin
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ITALY

until 21 December 2025

Silk Treasures textile masterpiece of the Falleti Donation

Prato Textile Museum

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JAPAN

Permanent exhibition

Tues to Sun, 9:00 am -5:00 pm

History of Silk

Yokahama Silk Museum

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NETHERLANDS

until 15 June 2025

Secrets of making #4

Netherlands Textile Museum, Tilbury

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until 24 August 2025

Magdalena Abakanowicz: everything is made of fibre

Netherlands Textile Museum, Tilbury

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Until 30 November 2025

Intersections

Museo del Traje, Madrid

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SWITZERLAND

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UNITED KINGDOM

Permanent exhibition

Flax to Fibre
Irish Linen Centre, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
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ongoing

Local Costumes, from the Victorian era
Country Life Museum, Dalgarven Mill
Kilwinning, Scotland
More info...

opens 7 June 2025

Design and Disability

V & A South Kensington, London

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until 17 August 2025

Splash! And Style

Design Museum, London

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until 31 August 2025

Leigh Bowery

Tate Modern, London

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until 31 August 2025

Tomorrow’s Wardrobe
Design Museum, London
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until 7 September 2025

Textiles- The Art of Mankind

Textile & Fashion Museum, London

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until 2 November 2025

Unpicking Couture

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England

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until 23 November 2025

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance

The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace

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until 30 November 2025

Dress Codes

Kensington Palace, London

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9 October 2025 to 11 January 2026

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World

National Portrait Gallery

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until 25 January 2026

Platform: Bethan Laura Wood

Design Museum, London

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20 September 2025 to 22 March 2026

Marie Antoinette Style
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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19 September 2025 to 29 March 2026

Blitz: The Club That Shaped the 80’s

The Design Museum, London

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USA

ongoing

Textile 101 Gallery, interactive
George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
Try your hand at weaving
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until 25 May 2025

The Hepburn Style: Katharine and Her Designs
Kent State University Museum, Ohio
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until 28 July 2025

Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman: Dazzling Day and Night
Kent State University Museum, Ohio
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until 26 October 2025

Superfine:Tailoring Black Style

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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until 1 September 2026

Art and Design from 1900 to Now
RISD Museum (Rhode Island School of Design) Providence, RI

Drawings, costumes, textiles, paintings, sculptures,photography etc. 
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until 30 June 2028

Fashion Timeline
Kent State University Museum, Ohio
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INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES that have textile/fashion exhibitions

Argentina

Austria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belgium

Bolivia

Brazil

Butan

Canada
Chile

China

Columbia

Czech Repulic

Denmark

Ecuador
Egypt

Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece

Guatemala

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Ireland, Republic of
Italy
Japan

Korea
Latvia

Mexico

Malaysia

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Pakistan

Peru

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Singapore

South Africa

South Korea

Spain
Sweden

Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
USA

ARGENTINA

• Museum of the History of Costume (Museo Nactional de la Historia del Traje), Buenos Aires - opening times vary

AUSTRIA

• Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna
• Lengberg Castle, East Tyrol, medieval underwear
• MAK Museum, Vienna
• Wien Musem Fashion Collection, Vienna

AZERBAIJAN

• Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, Baku - closed Mondays

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BANGLADESH

• Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka - closed Thursday and Friday

BELGIUM

• Fashion and Lace Museum, Brussels - focus on Brussels lace
• Hasselt's Fashion Museum (Mode Museum Hasselt's) - open Tuesday to Sunday with 2 exhibits a year
• MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp - open Tuesday to Sunday
• Museum of Costume and Lace (Musee du costume et da la Mode), Brussels

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BOLIVIA

• Museo Costumbrista Juan de Vargas, La Paz – 2 rooms of costumes
• Museum of Bolivian Andean Textiles (Museo de Textiles Andinos Bolivianos), La Paz - learn about the weaving processes, styles and textiles from the varying cultures and regions within Bolivia

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BRAZIL

• Museum of Fashion (Museu de Moda), Canela

BUTAN

• The Textile Museum, Royal Textile Academy of Butan, Thimphu

CANADA

• Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Ontario - Footwear and consumerism in the 1980s

• McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, Quebec

• Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario

• Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario
• The Costume Museum of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario

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CHILE

• Museo De la Moda, Santiago

CHINA

• China Silk Museum, Hangzhou

COLUMBIA

• Museum of Costumes (Museo de Trajes), Bogota – Costume  museum with colonial, ethnic & indigenous outfits, along with clothes-making tools

CZECH REPUBLIC

• Museum of Decorative Arts, Praque
• Jewish Museum in Prague

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DENMARK

• Brede Works (Brede Vaerk), Lyngby, north of Copenhagen
• Design Museum, Copenhagen
• Museum of Everyday Life in the 20th Century, Odense - 9 rooms decorated according to different decades
• The National Museum, Copenhagen - open Tuesday to Sunday
• Royal Danish Arsenal Museum (Tojhusmuseet), Copenhagen - collection of military uniforms

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ECUADOR

• Mindalae Museum (Ethnohistoric & Crafts Museum), Quito

EGYPT

• Egyptian Textiles Museum, Cairo
• National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) – textile gallery
  

ESTONIA

• Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn

FINLAND

• Craft Museum of Finland, Jyvaskyla
• Design Museum, Helsinki
• Forssa Museum, Forssa - Closed Mondays; check open times as this changes with the seasons
• The National Costume Center of Finland, Jyvaskyla – operates as part of the Craft Museum
  

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FRANCE

• Atelier-Musee du Chapeau (Hat Workshop-Museum), Chazelles-sur-Lyon
• Cite Dentelle Mode (Museum for Lace and Fashion), Calais
• Foundation Louis Vuitton Museum, Paris
• La Galerie Dior, Paris
• La Musee des Arts et Metiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts), Paris
• Librairie de la Mode (The Fashion Bookstore), Paris
• Musee Christian Dior, Granville
• Musee D'Art et D'Industrie (Museum of Art and Industry), Saint Etienne
• Musee de l'Impression sur Ettofes (Museum of Printed Textiles), Mulhouse
• Musee del Mode et du Textile (Fashion and Textile Museum) - development of historical and contemporary fashion from the 18th century
• Musee des Arts Decoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts), Paris
• Musee des Dentelles et des Broderies (Lace and Embroidery Museum), Caudry
• Musee des Tissues et des Arts Decoratifs (Museum of Fabric and Decorative Arts), Lyon - currently closed for renovations
• Musee Pierre Cardin, Paris
• Musee Yves Saint Laurent (also called Foundation Pierre Berge - Yves Saint Laurent), Paris
• Palais Galliera, Paris - 18th C dress dept., 19th C costume dept., fashion from the first half of the 20th C, haute couture, contemporary, accessories
• Soiere Vivante (Living Silk), Lyon - 2 weaving workshops
• The Museum of Lace and Fashion (Cité de la Dentelle), Calais - temporary and permanent exhibitions,
• Wesserling Textile Museum, (Parc de Wesserling), Chateau de Wesserling, Husseren-Wesser

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GEORGIA

• State Silk Museum, Tbiisi

GERMANY

• Augsburg Textile and Industry Museum, Augsburg
• Bavarian National Museum  (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum), Munich
• Black Forest Costume Museum, Haslach im Kinzigtal
• Dresden State Art Museum  (Staaliche Kunstsammlungen), Dresden
  
• Fashion Museum, Festin buiding at Ludwigsburg Residential Palace
• German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum), Berlin
  
• German Leather Museum (Deutsches Ledermuseum), Offenbach
  
• German National Museum, Nuremburg
  
• German Shoe Museum, Hauenstein – has online viewing
  
• German Textile Museum (Deutsches Textilmuseum), Krefeld
  
• Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg
  
• Muencher State Museum (Muencher Stadtmuseum), Muenchen - has online collection and virtual tour
• Museum of Arts and Crafts (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe), Hamburg
• Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum), Berlin – extensive range of costumes and accessories
• Schloss Museum Jever (Jever Castle Museum), historical folk costume
  
• Textile Museum (Textilmuseum), Mindelheim
• Tuch+Technik Textile Museum, Newmunster

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GREECE

• Benaki Museum, Athens – wide range of objects from prehistoric to the 20^th Century
• Historical and Folklore Museum, Kalamata
• Museum of Greek Modern Culture, Athens
• Peloponnesian Folklore Museum, Nafplion
• The Victoria Karelias Collection of Traditional Greek Costume, Kalamata

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GUATEMALA

• House of Antique Textiles (Museo Casa del Tejido Antiguo), Sacatepéquez
• Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Clothing (Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena), Guatemala City

HONG KONG

• Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textiles (CHAT)
  
• Hong Kong Heritage Museum – a fashion display not always present so check
  
• Hong Kong Palace Museum

INDIA

• National Crafts Museum, New Delhi
• Sanskrit Museums of India – currently closed  
• The Calico Museum of Textiles, Ahmedabad              

• Vimor Museum of Living Textiles, Bengaluru - able to touch and feel different types of yarn, try loom weaving and try on fabrics
  

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INDONESIA

• Museum of Textile, West Jakarta
• Harry Davsono Museum, Cilandak, South Jakarta – fashion and photography

IRELAND, REPBULIC OF

• National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and History, Dublin

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ITALY

• Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum, Rome - decorative arts, costume and fashion
  
• Centro Studi di Storia del Tessuto a del Costume (Study Centre for the History of Textiles & Costume), Mocenigo Palace, Venice
• Cerratelli Foundation, San Giuliano, Tuscany – collection of theatre and film costumes; 30,000 outfits
• Davanzati Palace Museum, Florence
• Fortuny Museum, Venice
• Museo della Moda E Del Costume (Museum of Fashion and Costume), Pitti Palace, Florence      
• Gucci Museum, Florence  
• Lisio Silk Foundation, Florence – silk art, fabric weaving, able to observe weaving
• Museo dell’Arte Della Lana (Wool Museum), Tuscany
• Museo del Merletto, Burano (Venice) – lace museum
• Museo della Seta di Como – the silk-making process from silkworms to heritage looms and clothing samples       
• Museo del Tessuto (The Textile Museum), Prato – historical and contemporary textiles production 
• Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
• Museo Rossimoda della Calzatura, Venice – footwear museum, online catalogue, tours available
• Museo Salvadore Ferragamo, Florence – shoe museum
• Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
• Roberto Capucci Foundation Museum, Villa Bardini in Costa San Giorgioz – rotating exhibition of haute couture, illustrations and photographs
• Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua, Santa Croce (Venice) – historic weaving workshop
• Valentino Garavani Museum – virtual museum

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JAPAN

• Costume Museum of Kyoto – dolls dress in the clothing and customs of the Heian period.  Also reproduction costumes from other periods 
• Bunka Gukuen Costume Museum, Tokyo – Japanese western style clothing    
• Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum – Kimonos
• Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe – English clothing from the Elizabethan period to the 1960’s
• Kyoto Costume Institute, Kyoto
  
• The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Meguro City, Tokyo
• Upopoy (National Ainu Museum and Park), Hollaido – promotes the culture of the Ainu people through traditional costumes and embroidery patterns
• Yokahama Silk Museum, Yokahama
  

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KOREA

• Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum, Seoul
• World Jewellery Museum, Seoul

LATVIA

• Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
• Museum of Decorative Arts, Riga

MALAYSIA

• Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
• National Textile Museum, Kuala Lumpur

MEXICO

• Franz Mayer Museum (Museo Franz Mayer), Mexico City
• Frida Kahlo Museum (Museo Frida Kahlo), Mexico City
• Textile Museum of Oaxaca

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NETHERLANDS

• The Netherlands Textile Museum, Tilbury
• Centraa
• Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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NEW ZEALAND

• New Zealand Fashion Museum - an online museum only
• Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Collections (online collection) – search for fashion, textiles, dresses, costumes etc.

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NORWAY

• Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Kunstindustrimuseet), Oslo - 3 exhibition spaces for fashion
• Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Norsk Folkemuseum), Oslo - folk museum with weaving and knitting; also small hand weaving looms and handicraft
• Textile Industry Museum, Bergen

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PAKISTAN

• Lok Virsa Heritage Museum, Islamabad
  

PERU

• Gold Museum of Peru (Museo Oro Del Peru), Lima
  

POLAND

• Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz
  

PORTUGAL

• Museu do Design e da Moda, Lisbon - Francisco Capelo collection
• Museu Nacional do Traje e da Moda (National Museum of Costume & Fashion), Lisbon - temporarily closed

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ROMANIA

• Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
  

SERBIA

• Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade
  

SINGAPORE

• Asian Civilisation Museum - has a fashion wing
• Peranakan Museum - costumes and objects of the Peranakan culture

SOUTH KOREA

• Simone Handbag Museum, Seoul

SOUTH AFRICA

• Iziko, South Africa National Gallery, Cape Town - has flags, household linen, Indonesian ikats and batiks, carpets, samplers and embroideries
  

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SPAIN

• Museo Cristobal Balenciaga, Getaria - Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am -3pm.  This changes with different months.
• Design Museum (Museo del Disseny), Barcelona
• Museum of Costume (Museo del Traje), Madrid
• Museum of Leather Artistry (Museu de L’Art.de la Pell), Vic
  
• Museum of Medieval Textiles (Museo de Telas Medievales), Monastery of Las Huelgas, Burgos
  
• Royal Collections Gallery (Galeria de las Colecciones Reales), Madrid - tapestries
• Textile Museum & Documentation Centre (Museu Textil I D’Indumentaria), Barcelona - Permanent and temporary collections

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SWEDEN

• Almgren Silk Factory and Museum, Stockholm
  
• Dalarnas Museum, Falun - Swedish folk art, music and costume collection of regional textiles
• The Army Museum (Armemuseum), Stockholm - historical military dress
• The Cathedral Museum, Uppsala – medieval costume
  
• The Rohsska Museum, Gothenburg - garments from 1800s to today
• The Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren), Stockholm - collection of garments from the 17th century
• The Nordic Museum (Nordiska Museet), Stockholm - showcases clothing products worn or produced in Sweden
• The Textile Museum of Sweden (Textilmuseet), Boras - textiles and fashion from 1870
• Zorn Old Farm and Textile Museum (Zorn Textilkammare), Mora

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SWITZERLAND

• Abegg- Stiflung Museum, Riggisberg

• Swiss National Museum, (Landesmuseum), Zurich 
• St. Gallen Textile Museum(Textil Museum), St. Gallen

TURKEY

• Istanbul Carpet Museum, located in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
• Museum of World Costumes, Buyukcekmece – folk costumes from various countries
• Uluumay Osmanli Halk Kiyafetleri ve Takilari Muzesi, Bursa – private heritage museum exhibits of Ottoman folk costumes and jewellery

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UNITED KINGDOM

• Allhallows Museum of Lace and Local Antiquities, Honiton
  
• Barbican Centre, London – hosts fashion exhibitions
• Blanford Fashion Museum, Lime Tree House, Blandford Forum
• Borders Textile Towerhouse, Hawick, Scotland
• Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury, England – houses the Embroiderers’ Guild museum collection
• Coldharbour Mill, Uffculm, Devon – a working wool museum.
• Dalgarven Mills Museum, Kilwinning, Scotland – country life museum
• Fashion Museum, Bath – temporarily closed but has online exhibitions
• Fashion & Textile Museum, London – rotating exhibitions
• Framework Knitters Museum, Nottingham
• Glasgow Life Museums  This is several museums – People’s Palace, St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, The Burrell Collection
• Hat Works Museum, Stockport    
• Irish Linen Centre, Lisbum Museum, Northern Ireland
• London College of Fashion – has exhibitions and galleries
• Museum of London – textiles and design exhibitions (closed until 2026)
• National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
• Newtown Textile Museum, Newtown,Powys,Wales
• Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London – oldest dress on display 
  
• Pickford House, Derby, England – Georgian life and costume
• The British Museum, London
• The Design Museum, Kensington, London – industrial, graphic design, fashion and architecture
• Shetland Textile Museum, Lerwick (Shetland), Scotland, http://www.shetlandtextilemuseum.com
• Silk Museum, Macclesfield
• Somerset House, London
• Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum, Bogan House, Totnes – contains Devonshire collection of period costumes from 18^th to 21^st C.
• V&A Dundee, Scotland
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• York Museum & Trust – view costume and textiles collection online
• Whitechurch Silk Mill, Whitechurch
• Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Wisbech

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USA

• Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
• American Textile History Museum
• Anna Wintour Costume Centre at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
• Black Fashion Museum Collection at the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Harlem, New York – Historical contributions of black designers and clothing makers
• Brooklyn Museum, New York 
• Chicago History Museum – has a collection of costumes and textiles (view images)
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan, New York
• de Young / Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, California – rotating fashion exhibitions
• Esse Purse Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas – women’s handbags and their contents
• Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania            
• Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), Los Angeles, California – early Hollywood costume collection
• Fashion Institute of Technology Museum (FIT), New York – rotating exhibitions of vintage garments apparel and shoes
• Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota
• Historic Costume & Textile Collection, Ohio State University, Columbus
• Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields
• International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska                    
• Kent State University Museum, Ohio – online catalogue
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
•  Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, Rhode Island Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Museum of the City of New York
• New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts
• Plains Indian Museum Powwow, Cody, Wyoming  
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• RISD Museum (Rhode Island School of Design) Providence, RI
• Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC
• Texas Fashion Collection, University of North Texas, Denton – preservation and documentation of historically significant fashion
• Textile and Clothing Museum, Iowa State University, Ames
• Textile Museum, George Washington University, Washington DC
• Ukrainian Museum, New York

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