The UK is home to a variety of museums and galleries that host permanent and seasonal fashion and textile exhibitions. These include:

Waste Age: What can design do? At the Design Museum in London

• Until February 20, 2022
• www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions/waste-age-what-can-design-do

Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture at the Fashion & Textile Museum in London

• 1 October 2021 – 13 March 2022
• www.fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitions/beautiful-people-the-boutique-in-1960s-counterculture

Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the V&A in London

• March 19 to November 6, 2022
• https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/fashioning-masculinities-the-art-of-menswear

Bethany Williams at the Design Museum in London

• Spring 2022
• www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions/bethany-williams

150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework: Crown to Catwalk at The Fashion & Textile Museum in London

• 1 April 2022 – 4 September
• www.fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitions/150-years-of-the-royal-school-of-needlework-crown-to-catwalk

The Royal Collection: Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

• Buckingham Palace- The Queen’s Accession: July 22 to October 2, 2022
• Windsor Castle – The Queen’s Coronation: July 7 to September 26, 2022
• The Palace of Holyroodhouse – The Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees: July to September 2022
• www.rct.uk/about/news-and-features/the-queens-platinum-jubilee-special-displays-at-the-official-residences#/

‘Africa Fashion’ at the  V&A in London

• June 11, 2022, to April 16, 2023
• www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/africa-fashion

Kaffe Fassett: The Power of Pattern at the Fashion & Textile Museum in London

• 22 September 2022 – 12 March 2023
• www.fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitions/kaffe-fassett-the-power-of-pattern

UK Fashion & Textile Museums and Galleries

Fashion & Textile Museum (London)

Victoria & Albert Museum (London)

Museum of London (London)

Design Museum (London)

Fashion Museum (Bath)

Blandford Fashion Museum (Dorset)

Devonshire Collection of Period Costume (Devon)

Gallery of English Costume (Manchester)

Quarry Bank Mill (Cheshire)

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum (Lancashire)

Queen Street Mill (Lancashire)

York Castle Museum (York)

Macclesfield Silk Museums (Macclesfield)

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery (Northampton)

Wardown Park Museum (Luton)

Whitchurch Silk Mill (Hampshire)

Framework Knitters Museum (Nottingham)

Nottingham Industrial Museum (Nottinghamshire)

Coldharbour Mill (Devon)

SCOTLAND

Museum of Ayrshire Country Life & Costume (Kilwinning, Scotland)

Borders Textile Towerhouse (Hawick, Scotland)

Shetland Textile Museum (Böd of Gremista, Lerwick, Shetland)

WALES

National Wool Museum (Drefach Felindre, Llandysul, Carmarthenshire Wales)

Newtown Textile Museum (Newtown, Powys, Wales)

NORTHERN IRELAND

Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum (Lisburn, Northern Ireland)

CHANNEL ISLANDS

Folk & Costume Museum (Guernsey)

This is by no means an exhaustive list. To add a museum or exhibition, please contact info@ukft.org