Quilt Museums
This is a listing of museums which are primarily quilt museums or businesses that have great quilt collections on display.
- Alley Flos Antiques
- The American Quilt
- American Legacy Quilt Block Series
- American Quilt Study Group
- American Folk Art Museum in NYC
- American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
- Antique Textile Information
- Bluebird Gardens Quilts
- British Quilt History Study Group
- Cindy’s Antique Quilts
- Offers a wide selection of quality antique and collectible quilts, tops, blocks and Indian trade and camp blankets, owner Cindy Rennels
- Costume Gallery
- Crazy Quilt Society
- Colonial Williamsburg (VA)
- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
- Costume Super Center
- Darwin Beardley Antique Quilts
- Effects of Light and Heat Aging on Selected Quilting Products Containing Adhesives (PDF)
- Exploring Quilting History The history of quilts and the women who made them. Weekly articles include periods, styles, book reviews and making reproduction quilts.
- French Treasures – Vintage Fabrics and Antique Textiles
- Gazebo’s Textiles
- Great Lakes Quilt Center
- Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Museum, Washington, DC
- Deerfield Museum, Deerfield, MA
- Great Lakes Quilt Center
- Handweaving Museum & Arts Center, Clayton, NY
- Hart Cottage Quilts
- The Holy Bible: A Source of inspiration for quilters.
- Illinois State Museum
- International Quilt Study Center, Lincoln NE
- Historic Deerfield Museum, Deerfield, MA
- International Quilt Study Center in Lincoln NE
- Lancaster Cultural History Museum in Lancaster, PA
- Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum in Lancaster PA
- Kalona Quilt and Textile Museum, Kalona IA
- Kansas Historical Society
- La Conner Quilt Museum, LaConner Washington
- LACMA Costumes and Textiles, Los Angeles, CA
- Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, PA
- Latimer Quilt & Textile Center, Tillamook, OR
- Levy County Quilt Museum, Chiefland, FL
- Laura Fisher Quilts –
- Antique quilts by era, Quilt Calendar
- Karen Erlandson Quilts
- Log Cabin Antiques
- sells antique quilts and tops.
- Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project
- Masters in History Top Online Masters in History and Humanities Degrees
- McKIM STUDIOS
- Museum of the American Quilter’s Society (MAQS) Paducah, KY
- Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York),
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
- Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
- Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington MA
- New England Quilt Museum
- Newark Museum, Newark NJ
- Nebraska State Historical Society
- New England Quilt Museum (will loan books on quilt study)
- New Pathways into Quilt History
- New York Folklore Society
- Nimble Needle Treasures Magazine
- Old Sturbridge Village Study Collections
- Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts
- Packwood House Museum in Lewisburg, PA
- People’s Place Quilt Museum in Lancaster PA
- Pikes Peak Weavers Guild
- Pioneer and Historical Society of Muskingum
- Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO
- Patches from the Past
- Quilt Care Resource List
- Quilt Explorer
- Quilt Guilds Find a quilter in your area!
- The Quilt Index
- Quilter’s Hall of Fame, Marion, IN
- Quilt Patterns from History.com
- Quilt and Textile Collections
- Quilter’s Muse Publications
- Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, Library of Congress, American Memory Project
- Quilts Etc – Exploring quilts for education and enjoyment….welcome to the adventure!.
- Online UK quilting magazine with articles, What’s on, and much, much more
- QuiltTalk – IRC channel for quilters
- Quilts, Counterpanes and Throws
- Quilts, Etc – a blog exploring quilts for education and enjoyment
- Quilts of Gees Bend
- Reproduction Fabrics
- Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
- San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
- Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
- Smithsonian in Washington DC
- Sharon’s Antiques Vintage Fabrics -Vintage & antique fabric, linens, quilts, tops and more
- Shelley Zegart Quilts
- Smithsonian Magazine
- Sunbonnet Sue History
- Textile Collection (the Netherlands)
- Thistle Hill Weavers reproduction weaving
- Textile Museum, Washington, DC
- Tracing the roots of quilting to the European and African influences
- Vintage Quilt Kits
- Virginia Quilt Museum
- Wisconsin Historical Museum Online Collections
- Women of Color Quilters Network
- Womenfolk Creativity and Living in Balance
- Womens Early Art
- Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg VA
- Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford CT
- Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
- Yakima Valley Museum