United Kingdom Quilt Collections
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If you know of other museums or historic houses in the UK with quilt collections, please help us by adding them to this Wiki! To contribute to this resource, please create an account on this Wiki. Once a QI staff person approves your account, you will be able login and edit the page.
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.
Credits: Many thanks to Dorothy Osler, British author and textile consultant, for her assistance in populating this page.
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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.
UK Map
Image source: Freegk.com World Atlas.
