United Kingdom Quilt Collections
From QuiltIndex
N.B. Only those museums which are known to have collections of some significance (because of size or regional/cultural significance) have been included. Many UK museums and country houses will have textiles collections which include a small number of quilts. Even for those museums in this list, quilts rarely feature in the information on their websites or in their searchable databases.
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England
- Located in Bath, England
- http://www.americanmuseum.org/
- Located in Halifax, West Yorkshire
- http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/leisure/museums-galleries/bankfield-museum/whatwillIsee.html#subcontent
- The North of England Open Air Museum
- County Durham, England
- http://www.beamish.org.uk/Home.aspx
- http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/
- Large collection of Caddow quilts
- Located in the UK
- County Durham, England
- http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/
Costume and Textile Study Centre
- Located at the Carrow House Study Centre, Norfolk
- http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=210.10x1
- Burnley, Lancashire
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
- Hereford, Herefordshire
- http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/leisure/museums-galleries/2869.asp
- Located in Leeds
- http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Home/Our_Collections/Costume_and_Textiles.aspx
Moat Park Heritage Center, Museums Trust Biggar
- Located in Biggar
- http://www.biggarmuseumtrust.co.uk/cms/index.php?page=moatpark
Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
- Located at Middlesex University
- http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/collections_research/index.htm
- Located in Sevenoaks
- http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000079
- Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
- http://www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/
- St. Anthony's Hall, York; opened in 2008
- "Europe's first museum dedicated to quilt making and textile arts"
- http://www.quiltmuseum.org.uk/
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
- Exeter, Devon
- http://www.rammuseum.prg.uk/Costume-and-textile
- Taunton, Somerset
- http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/museums/Intro
- Carlisle, Cumbria
- http://www.tulliehouse.co.uk
- Newcastle/Gateshead/Sunderland
- http://www.twmuseums.org.uk
- Located in South Kensington
- http://www.vam.ac.uk/
- See also the V & A's Quilt of Quilts project, http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/quilts/
See also: University of Leeds International Textiles Archive, http://ulita.leeds.ac.uk/wiki/mediawiki-1.10.1/index.php/Clothworkers_Digital_Archive
Scotland
Cultures and Sports Glasgow Museums
- Located in Glasgow
- http://www.csglasgow.org/
- Located in Lerwick, Shetland Islands
- http://www.shetland-museum.org.uk/museumCollections/textiles/
Wales
- Located in Wales
- http://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=197
Museum of Welsh Life at St. Fagan's
- Located in Cardiff
- Part of the National Museum of Wales
- http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/
- Located in Cardiff
- http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/
- Located in Llandysul, Wales
- Part of the National Museum of Wales
- http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/wool/
The Quilt Association, Minerva Arts Centre
- Llanidloes, Mid Wales
- Full quilt collection online at: http://www.quilt.org.uk/page-6-Our + Collection.html
- Located in Lampeter, West Wales
- http://www.jen-jones.com/JJWQC.htm
Northern Ireland
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
- Cultra, near Belfast
- http://www.nmni/uftm
- Cross-listed under Ireland in International Quilt Collections.