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PieceWork
From intricate embroidery and colorwork knitting to folk dress and fashion, our global museum list makes it easy to find where needlework is preserved and celebrated worldwide.
Discover collections near home or wherever your travels may take you. Many museums offer digitized holdings, inviting you to explore, learn, and spark new inspiration for your own handwork. Search by museum name, city, country, or specialty. Please contact us with questions, museums to add, and updates.
comprehensive collection(remove filter)
55 museums found
| Museum | Location | Specialty | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abegg-Stiftung Museum | Riggisberg, Switzerland | comprehensive collection | abegg-stiftung.ch ↗ |
| Art Institute of Chicago |
| Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| comprehensive collection |
| artic.edu ↗ |
| Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising | Fort Collins, Colorado, United States | comprehensive collection | chhs.colostate.edu ↗ |
| Bavarian National Museum | Munich, Germany | comprehensive collection | bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de ↗ |
| Bowers Museum | Santa Ana, California, United States | comprehensive collection | bowers.org ↗ |
| Central Museum of Textiles | Lodz, Poland | comprehensive collection | cmwl.pl ↗ |
| Chicago History Museum | Chicago, Illinois, United States | comprehensive collection | chicagohistory.org ↗ |
| Cincinnati Art Museum | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | comprehensive collection | cincinnatiartmuseum.org ↗ |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland, Ohio, United States | comprehensive collection | clevelandart.org ↗ |
| Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum | New York, New York, United States | comprehensive collection | cooperhewitt.org ↗ |
| Decorative Arts Museum | Paris, France | comprehensive collection | madparis.fr ↗ |
| Denver Art Museum | Denver, Colorado, United States | comprehensive collection | denverartmuseum.org ↗ |
| De Young Fine Art Museum | San Francisco, California, United States | comprehensive collection | famsf.org ↗ |
| Gawthorpe Textile Collection | Brierfield, UK | comprehensive collection | gawthorpetextiles.org.uk ↗ |
| German Historical Museum | Berlin, Germany | comprehensive collection | dhm.de ↗ |
| Germanisches National Museum | Nuremburg, Germany | comprehensive collection | gnm.de ↗ |
| Gregg Museum of Art & Design | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States | comprehensive collection | gregg.arts.ncsu.edu ↗ |
| Hamburg Museum for Applied Art | Hamburg, Germany | comprehensive collection | mkg-hamburg.de ↗ |
| Kent State University Museum | Kent, Ohio, United States | comprehensive collection | kent.edu ↗ |
| Kunst Historisches Museum (Art History Museum) | Vienna, Austria | comprehensive collection | khm.at ↗ |
| Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami | Miami, Florida, United States | comprehensive collection | lowe.miami.edu ↗ |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, New York, United States | comprehensive collection | metmuseum.org ↗ |
| Minneapolis Institute of Art | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States | comprehensive collection | new.artsmia.org ↗ |
| Museo del Traje | Madrid, Spain | comprehensive collection | cultura.gob.es ↗ |
| Museum of Art and Design | New York, New York, United States | comprehensive collection | madmuseum.org ↗ |
| Museum of Craft and Design | San Francisco, California, United States | comprehensive collection | sfmcd.org ↗ |
| Museum of Fine Arts | Houston, Texas, United States | comprehensive collection | mfah.org ↗ |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | comprehensive collection | mfa.org ↗ |
| Museum of London | London, UK | comprehensive collection | museumoflondon.org.uk ↗ |
| Museum of the City of New York | New York, New York, United States | comprehensive collection | mcny.org ↗ |
| National Museum | Copenhagen, Denmark | comprehensive collection | en.natmus.dk ↗ |
| National Needlework Archive | Newbury, UK | comprehensive collection | nationalneedleworkarchive.org.uk ↗ |
| Norfolk Museum Collections | Norfolk, UK | comprehensive collection | museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk ↗ |
| Peabody Essex Museum | Salem, Massachusetts, United States | comprehensive collection | pem.org ↗ |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | comprehensive collection | visitpham.org ↗ |
| Powerhouse Museum | Sydney, Australia | comprehensive collection | powerhouse.com.au ↗ |
| Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum | Cologne, Germany | comprehensive collection | rautenstrauch-joest-museum.de ↗ |
| Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum, Miami University | Miami, Ohio, United States | comprehensive collection | miamioh.edu ↗ |
| Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam, Netherlands | comprehensive collection | rijksmuseum.nl ↗ |
| Royal Ontario Museum | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | comprehensive collection | rom.on.ca ↗ |
| TATTER | Brooklyn, New York, United States | comprehensive collection | tatter.org ↗ |
| Textile Museum | Tilburg, Netherlands | comprehensive collection | textielmuseum.nl ↗ |
| Textile Museum of Canada | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | comprehensive collection | textilemuseum.ca ↗ |
| Textile Museum (Switzerland) | St. Gallen, Switzerland | comprehensive collection | textilmuseum.ch ↗ |
| Textile Research Centre | Leiden, Netherlands | comprehensive collection | trc-leiden.nl ↗ |
| The British Museum | London, UK | comprehensive collection | britishmuseum.org ↗ |
| The Burrell Collection | Glasgow, Scotland | comprehensive collection | burrellcollection.com ↗ |
| The Cluny: National Museum of the Middle Ages | Paris, France | comprehensive collection | musee-moyenage.fr ↗ |
| The Louvre | Paris, France | comprehensive collection | louvre.fr ↗ |
| The Royal Armory Museum | Stockholm, Sweden | comprehensive collection, embroidery | livrustkammaren.se ↗ |
| The Textile Museum | Washington, D.C., United States | comprehensive collection | museum.gwu.edu ↗ |
| Tomas Jefferson University Textile and Costume Collection | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | comprehensive collection | library.jefferson.edu ↗ |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection | Madison, Wisconsin, United States | comprehensive collection | cdmc.wisc.edu ↗ |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | London, UK | comprehensive collection | vam.ac.uk ↗ |
| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art | Hartford, Connecticut, United States | comprehensive collection | thewadsworth.org ↗ |