It happens to me quite often that I only learn about a museum with an interesting textile collection after I come back from visiting the city where it is located.  

Certainly, one can find on Internet plenty of sites with tourist or cultural information on cities or countries, or even lists of all the museums in the world, but many non-specialised museums tend to hide the textile-related objects at the bottom of their catalogues or their less prominent web pages. What I try to do here is to limit the list to museums with some kind of textile collection while keeping it as complete as possible.

Besides the obvious choices, such as the Museums of Costume, Fashion or Bobbin Lace, I have tried to locate ethnological, historical or local museums which display regional costumes, home-made cloth, rugs, patchwork, lace, embroideries, etc. Also included are the ones with tools and implements used in textile processes -flax, wool, looms, spinning wheels, etc- and some ecclesiastical museums with liturgical or altar clothes.

If you know of a museum which you would like to see added to the list, please let me know. You can write the details in the contact form and send me a message. Thanks in advance!

There is one page for each museum, with its name in the original language of the country where it is located, a link to its web page, its address and a map showing its location as precisely as possible. I have chosen not to duplicate information that changes often, such as opening hours and the composition of the permanent collections, as I think that it is better to look up the museum's pages. Sometimes, there will be mention of a particularly interesting object or collection, as seen in next picture:

How to find a museum 

Go to the museums page: http://www.gancedo.eu/museums

To centre the map on the country you want, select its name in the drop-down list and click Apply. You can also write the url directly http://www.gancedo.eu/museums?country=xx, where xx is the country code. Have a look at these examples:

• Spain: http://www.gancedo.eu/museums?country=es
• Lithuania: http://www.gancedo.eu/museums?country=lt
• Sweden: http://www.gancedo.eu/museums?country=se

The link opens a normal Google map, with the same navigation controls and map selectors. The blue markers indicate the location of museums.

Click on the marker to open the information window.

Click again on the museum's name to open its dedicated page.  

To the museums list