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U.S. museums, libraries and archives, and state and regional historical societies listed here have collections of quilts and/or of books, papers or ephemera relating to quilts and quilt history. Institutions that have contributed to the Quilt Index are noted. If you know of a museum, library, archive or historical society with a permanent quilt or quilt-related collection that is not listed, please add it.

Suggestions for Using this Wiki

Clicking on the name of a museum takes you to the page about that museum's quilt collections.

If the name of the museum appears in purple, this means that someone has created a page for that institution. Follow the link, and feel free to edit and add to the page. If the name of the museum appears in red, a page for the museum has not yet been created. Please help the Quilt Index by clicking the red link and adding information (the new page will be created automatically when you click the 'save' button.)

PLEASE do not alter the names of any titles appearing in purple without consulting the Quilt Index staff--doing this breaks links and makes it impossible to navigate to the page!!!

To add information about a collection, please click on the NAME of the museum/archive/library you wish to edit, NOT the edit link on the righthand side of the page. The following kinds of information are especially useful for the Wiki's museum quilt collections pages:

Information about named quilt and textile collections owned by an institution
Highlights from an institution's quilt collection
The particular stregnths of an institution's quilt collection (geographic, stylistic, etc)
Areas in which the institution is actively seeking to expand its quilt collection (specific artists, traditions, regions)
Names, dates, and short descriptions of quilt exhibitions and symposia hosted by an institution
Descriptions of papers and/or ephemera relating to quilts owned by an institution
Information about quilt guilds, clubs or groups sponsored by an institution
Related publications
Links to any quilt-related projects the institution has done online
Information about uses of the quilt collection for educational outreach

ONLY click the edit link on the righthand side of the page if you adding a website url or a location for your institution. Please remember to type an asterisk before the url/location.

Alabama

Birmingham Museum of Fine Art

http://www.artsbma.org

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

http://www.fineartsmuseum.com/home.cfm

Arizona

Arizona Historical Society

http://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/

Arkansas

Old State House Museum

http://www.oldstatehouse.com/collections/quilts.asp
Located in Arkansas

Rogers Historical Museum

Rogers, AR
http://www.rogersarkansas.com/Museum/

California

Bowers Museum

Located in Santa Ana, CA
http://www.bowers.org/index.jsp

De Young Museum

Located in San Francisco
http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

http://www.lacma.org/

Oakland Museum of California

http://www.museumca.org/

Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Riverside, CA
http://www.riversideca.gov/museum/

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles

http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/

Colorado

Denver Art Museum

http://www.denverartmuseum.org

Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum

http://www.rmqm.org/index.htm
Quilt Index contributing institution
Permanent and education collections
The Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group meets on the third Friday of each month, 10:30am-12:30pm at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum.

Connecticut

Connecticut Historical Society

http://www.chs.org/

Wadsworth Atheneum

http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/
Located in Hartford, Connecticut

Delaware

Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village

Dover, DE
http://www.agriculturalmuseum.org/

Winterthur Museum

http://www.winterthur.org/

District of Columbia

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/qlthtml/qlthome.html

Daughters of the American Revolution Museum

http://www.dar.org/museum/
Quilt Index contributing institution

National Museum of American History

Kenneth E. Behring Center
A Smithsonian Institution Museum
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu

National Museum of the American Indian

A Smithsonian Institution Museum
http://www.nmai.si.edu

Smithsonian Institution

http://www.si.edu
For information about specific Smithsonian museums with quilt collections, see either the National Museum of the American Indian or the National Museum of American History.

Textile Museum

Located in Washington, DC
http://www.textilemuseum.org/

Florida

Museum of Florida History

http://www.flheritage.com/museum
Located in Tallahassee, Florida

Georgia

Atlanta History Center

Atlanta, GA
http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/

Juliet Gordon Low National Girl Scout Center

Located in Savannah, GA
http://www.juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org/

Hawaii

Bernice P. Bishop Museum

Located in Honolulu, HI
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/

Honolulu Academy of Arts

http://www.honoluluacademy.org/cmshaa/academy/index.aspx

Mission Houses Museum

Honolulu, HI
http://www.missionhouses.org/

Idaho

Idaho State Historical Library

Boise, ID
http://www.idahohistory.net/library_archives.html

Illinois

Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu

Early American Museum

http://www.earlyamericanmuseum.org/
Located in Mahomet, Illinois

Illinois State Museum

http://www.museum.state.il.us/
Hexagonal pieced quilts in the Illinois State Museum's collection http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/art/htmls/ks_piece_hex.html
Quilt Index contributing institution

National Museum of Mexican Art

http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/
Located in Chicago, IL

Indiana

The Children's Museum

Located in Indianapolis, IN
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/

Fort Wayne Museum of Arts

http://www.fwmoa.org

Indiana State Museum

http://www.in.gov/ism
Located in Indianapolis, Indiana
Large collection of Indiana Amish quilts
Collection of Indiana related quilts

Indianapolis Museum of Art

http://www.imamuseum.org
Large collection of Marie Webster Quilts
Several historic quilts
Quilts by Nancy Crow

Monroe County History Center

Located in Bloomington, Indiana
http://www.monroehistory.org/

Quilter's Hall of Fame

http://www.quiltershalloffame.net/
Located in Marion, IN
Marie Webster Quilt Guild

Seiberling Mansion

Located in Kokomo, IN
Home of the Howard County Historical Society
http://www.howardcountymuseum.org/

Iowa

Kalona Quilt and Textile Center

http://www.kalonaiowa.org/village/index.html
Located in Kalona, Iowa

State Historical Society of Iowa

http://www.iowahistory.org/
Located in Des Moines

Kansas

Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum

Located in Abilene, Kansas
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/Museum/Museum.html

Kansas Historical Society

To view quilts in the Kansas Memory website, simply enter 'quilt' in the search box.

Kansas Museum of History

Spencer Museum of Art

http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/
The art museum of the University of Kansas

Kentucky

Appalachian Collection, Morehead State University

Located in Morehead, KY
Center for Virtual Appalachia: http://cva.moreheadstate.edu/quilt.php

Kentucky Museum

Western Kentucky University
http://www.wku.edu/Library/kylm/collections/inhouse/km/quilts.html

Museum of the American Quilter's Society

Located in Paducah, KY
http://www.quiltmuseum.org/
Quilt Index contributing institution

University of Louisville Archives and Record Center

http://library.louisville.edu/uarc/

Louisiana

Louisiana State Museum

Located in New Orleans
http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/

Maine

Maine Memory Network

Maine's Online Museum
http://www.mainememory.net/

Maine State Museum

Located in Augusta, ME
http://www.maine.gov/museum/collections/index.html

Maryland

Baltimore Museum of Art

http://www.artbma.org

Historical Society of Kent County

http://www.kentcountyhistory.org/
Home of a county-wide quilt documentation project, the Kent County Quilt Documentation Project
Located in Chestertown, Maryland

Maryland Historical Society

http://www.mdhs.org/museum/index.html

Massachusetts

American Textile History Museum

http://www.athm.org/
Located in Lowell, MA

Historic Deerfield

http://www.historic-deerfield.org

Memorial Hall Museum

http://memorialhall.mass.edu/collection/index.html
Houses the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association's collection

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org

Museum of Our National Heritage

http://www.monh.org/
Located in Lexington, MA

New England Quilt Museum

http://www.nequiltmuseum.org/

Old Sturbridge Village

http://www.osv.org/collections/index.html
Located in Sturbridge, MA

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA)

Located in Boston
http://www.historicnewengland.org/

Michigan

Michigan Quilt Collections

The institutions listed in the Michigan Quilt Collections section are museums, historical societies, and libraries in Michigan with quilts or quilt-related ephemera in their collections. This listing represents a statewide project to inventory all of the quilts in public collections in Michigan in an effort to better understand the regional characteristics of the quilts produced in that state. Eventually, researchers hope to answer the question: Is there such a thing as a distinctively Michigan quilt?

Michigan State University Museum

http://museum.msu.edu/s-program/mtap/Collections/quilts.html
Quilt Index project partner and contributing institution
Houses the Michigan Quilt Project Collection (records of ongoing statewide documentation project) and over 600 quilts, including the Michigan African American Quiltmaking Collection, Cuesta Benberry Collection of African and African American Quilts and Ephemera, Kitty Clark Cole Quilt Collection, Deborah Harding Redwork Ephemera and Quilt Collection, and an extensive collection of Native American quilts and records from the To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions Project
Hosts virtual exhibition Mary Schafer and Her Legacy http://www.museum.msu.edu/glqc/exhibits_Schafer.html