AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITIONS

31 May to 6 October 2024
Ticketed event

Africa Fashion
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
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29 June to 7 October 2024
Ticketed event

Iris Van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
More info...

until 25 August 2024

A Century of Quilts
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
More info...

18 September to 20 October 2024

Wings and Friends With Lang Bergner: Group Show
Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
More info...

9 to 12 October 2024

Craft and Quilt Fair
Brisbane Exhibition Centre, QLD
More info...

23 Nov 2024 to 30 March 2025
Ticketed event

Radical Textiles
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
More info...

until 24 November 2024

Lesage X Vionnet 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Couture embroidery  from the Krystyne Campbell-Pretty fashion research collection
More info...

30 Nov 2024 to 25 January 2025

JamFactory ICON: New Exuberance: Contemporary Australian Textile Design
Cairns Art Gallery, QLD
30 textile creations plus 10 pieces of commissioned furniture
More info...

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AUSTRALIAN MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES that have textile/fashion exhibitions

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/

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany
Google Arts Project
Greece

Hong Kong

India

Ireland, Republic of
Italy

Japan

Netherlands

New Zealand

Spain

Switzerland

United Kingdom

USA

BELGIUM

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

Fashion from the MoMu Collection
MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp
More info...

until 10 November 2024

Jules Francois Crahay
Fashion & Lace Museum, Brussels
More info...

14 June 2024 to 6 January 2025

M/Others
Hasselt's Fashion Museum, Hasselt
More info...

29 June to 10 November 2024

MoMu x Fashion Department
MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp
More info...

28 September to 2 February 2025

Masquerade, Makeup & Ensor
MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp
More info...

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DENMARK

until 8 September 2024

AKUT #5, Care and Repair
Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen
More info...

until 29 September 2024

Proud, Design Museum, of Denmark, Copenhagen 

More info...

until 31 December 2025

Powerful Patterns
Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen
More info...

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FINLAND

Permanent exhibition

A Journey in Time - 2000 years of craft
Craft Museum of Finland, Jyvaskyla
More info...

Permanent exhibition

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

5 April to 13 October 2024

Kaukola Woman's National Costume Through the Years
Craft Museum of Finland, Jyvaskyla Changes in the beloved national costume design from 1921 to the present day.

14 September to 24 November 2024

Prayer - Ecclesiastical Textiles
Craft Museum of Finland, Jyvaskyla
The exhibition features church textiles designed and made by textile artist and master craftswoman Helena Vaari. Over the past 35 years, she has produced nearly 400 church textiles, including six bishop's mitres and church textiles for fifteen churches. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to see church textiles from different churches and in many liturgical colours in one go.

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FRANCE

until 17 November 2024

Fashion Design, Jewellery Exhibition
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
More info...

until 5 January 2025

Fashion on the Move
Palais Galliera, Paris
This chronological exhibition, featuring some 200 works, traces the history of fashion from the 18th century to the present day through the museum’s collections, while also developing a transversal theme on the body in movement.
More info...

15 June 2024 to 5 January 2025

Yuima Nakazato: Beyond couture
La Cite de la Dentelle et la Mode, (Museum of Fashion and Lace), Calais
More info...

6 November 2024 to 26 January 2025

Fashion in the Making: Photographs of 1920’s and 1930’s Designs
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
More info...

1 October 2024 to 30 March 2025

Fashion, Next gen Andams 35^th Anniversary
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
More info...

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GERMANY

Permanent exhibition

A Space for Applied Arts, Fashion and Design
Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin
More info...

Permanent exhibition

Man-Machine-Pattern-Fashion
Textile and Industry Museum (TIM), Augsburg
More info...

until 6 October 2024

Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Statements
Kunsthalle Munchen Museum, Munich
More info...

until 6 October 2024

Excess in Elegance, David Tomaszewski, A Decade and a Half

Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin
More info...

until 13 October 2024

Dresses. Stories.  The textile estate of Arno and Alice Schmidt
Textile and Industry Museum, Augsburg
More info... 

until 17 November 2024

Sewing For Survival – Jewish Refugees in Shanghai 1938-1949
Textile and Industry Museum, Augsburg
More info...

until 29 December 2024

Artapestry 7

German Textile Museum, Krefeld

More info...

12 October 2024 to 10 August 2025

Always with you: THE BAG

Deutsches Ledermuseum, Offenbach

More info...

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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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GREECE

until 29 September 2024

Poor Things, The Costumes
Benaki Museum, Athens
More info...

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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
More info...

until 14 October 2024

The Adorned Body: French Fashion and Jewellery, 1770-1910 
Hong Kong Palace Museum
More info...

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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
More info...

Vimor Museum of Living Textiles,Bengaluru,

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

More Info...

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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
More info...

Ongoing
Free admission

Ib Jorgensen, A Fashion Retrospective
National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin
More info...

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ITALY

until 22 September 2024

Walter Albini - the talent, the designer
Museo del Tessuto, Prato
More info...

until 24 November 2024

Eva Jospin Selva
Fortuny Museum, Venice
More info...

14 June 2024 to 8 January 2025

Fragile Stories
Museo del Merletto, Venice (Burano)
Lace museum
More info...

27 Nov 2024 to 23 March 2025

Memorable: Ipermoda
Maxxi, Rome
More info...

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JAPAN

Permanent exhibition

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

History of Silk

Yokahama Silk Museum

More info...

NETHERLANDS

until 12 January 2025

Designed to Dry - Kitty van der Mijll, Dekker X Vera Roggli
Netherlands Textile Museum, Tilbury
The history of household textiles
More info...

3 October 2024 to 2 March 2025

Moroccan Fashion Statements
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
More info...

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NEW ZEALAND

25 September to 13 October 2024

World of Wearable Art / WOW
TSB Arena, Wellington
More info...

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SPAIN

until 19 January 2025

Tuesday to Sunday

11:00 am – 3:00 pm  

Balenciaga Character

Cristobal Balenciaga Museum, Getaria

More info...

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SWITZERLAND

until 4 November 2024

Good Stuff

St. Gallen Textile Museum, St. Gallen

More info...

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UNITED KINGDOM

Permanent exhibition

Flax to Fibre
Irish Linen Centre, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
More info...

ongoing

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

until 8 September 2024

The Biba Story, 1964-1975
Fashion & Textile Museum, London, England
Exploring how fashion phenomenon Biba blossomed to become the world's first lifestyle label.
More info...

until 8 September 2024

Beyond Fashion - fashion photography
Saatchi Gallery, London, England
More info...

until 30 September 2024

Threads Exhibition - Society of Scottish Arts
Old Gala House, Borders Textile Towerhouse
Galashiels, Scotland
More info...

until 21 December 2024

Inspired: The Art of Making Historical Fashion
Blinkfield Museum, Halifax, England
More info...

until 31 December 2024

Fashion Tour 2024
V&A South Kensington, London, England
A guided tour of garments and fashion related objects, 1230 - 1315
Check with museum to ensure it is on for that day.
More info...

ends December 2024

Accessories
Shetland Textile Museum, Lerwick, Shetland
More info...

until 5 January 2025

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk
V&A Dundee, Scotland
More info...

until 12 January 2025

Unpicking Couture
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
More info...

5 July 2024 to 23 February 2025

Barbie
Design Museum, London, England
A major exhibition exploring the design evolution of one of the world's most famous dolls.
More info...

4 October 2024 to 9 March 2025

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80’s

London Fashion & Textile Museum

More info...

Until 6 April 2025

Naomi: In Fashion

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

More info...

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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
More info...

ongoing

Selections from The Textile Museum Collection
George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
A rotating selection of global textile art from the museum collections.
More info...

until 2 September 2024

Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
More info...

until 15 September 2024

Tongue in Chic: The Humor and High Fashion of Todd Oldham 
Tyler Museum of Art, Texas
More info...

until 11 October 2024

Modern Ritual, The Art of Mary McFadden

Drexel University, Philadelphia

More info...

until 27 October 2024

Yves Saint Laurent: Line and Expression
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California
More info...

until 21 December 2024

Irresistible: The Global Patterns of Ikat
George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
More info...

6 September to 15 December 2024

Nancy Crow: Quilts
Rockwell Hall, Kent State University Museum, Ohio
More info...

18 September to 29 December 2024

Africa's Fashion Diaspora
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York
More info...

until 31 December 2024

Monday to Friday 8:30 am -4pm, Saturday 9 am – 5 pm

Sewn In America

Daughter of the American Revolution (DAR) Museum, Washington D.C.

More info...

until 5 April 2025

Art Uncovered: Visionary Textile Scholars and Their Archives
George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
More info...

until 5 April 2025

Jazz Age Silks: The Stehli Silks Americana Collection 1925-1928
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
More info...

February to April 2025

Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities
FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York
More info...

until 25 May 2025

The Hepburn Style: Katharine and Her Designs
Kent State University Museum, Ohio
More info...

until 30 June 2028

Fashion Timeline
Kent State University Museum, Ohio
More info...

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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 Republic

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

Portugal
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
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

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

• 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

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.

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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
• 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
  

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

• 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 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 – history and art of textiles
• 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
• Museo dell’Arte Della Lana (Wool Museum), Tuscany

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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

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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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SINGAPORE

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

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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
• Royal Collections Gallery (Galeria de las Colecciones Reales), Madrid - tapestries
• Textile Museum & Documentation Centre, Barcelona - Permanent and temporary collections

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SWEDEN

• The Army Museum (Armemuseum), Stockholm - historical military dress
• Dalarnas Museum, Falun - Swedish folk art, music and costume collection of regional textiles
• 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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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

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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