Museum category

Textile Museums

Textile museums with weaving, fabric, costume, craft, industry, trade, pattern, conservation, and material traditions.

3 museum profiles

Museum Profiles

Coptic Museum Cairo, Egypt de Young Museum San Francisco, United States Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts Istanbul, Turkey

Museum Reviews

Coptic Museum Review Cairo, Egypt de Young Museum Review San Francisco, United States Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts Review Istanbul, Turkey

Editorial category guide

Textile museums for fabric, craft, and global exchange

Textile museums can explain labour, trade, technology, fashion, ritual, design, and domestic life through fabric. Textiles often carry stories of place, skill, economy, and identity.

This guide focuses on museums that make weaving, dyeing, pattern, fibre, conservation, and textile culture understandable to visitors who may not arrive as specialists.