Established 1975 (1975) Director Shauna McCabe Public transit access St. Patrick | Type textile museum Curator Sarah Quinton Province Ontario | |
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Location 55 Centre Avenue
Toronto, ON, Canada Address 55 Centre Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 2H5, Canada Hours Open today · 11AM–5PMThursday11AM–5PMFriday11AM–5PMSaturday11AM–5PMSunday11AM–5PMMonday11AM–5PMTuesday11AM–5PMWednesday11AM–8PMSuggest an edit Similar Gardiner Museum, Spadina House, Bata Shoe Museum, Mackenzie House, Art Gallery of Ontario Profiles | ||
Textile museum of canada june 2015
The Textile Museum of Canada, located Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and documentation of textiles.
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History
The Textile Museum of Canada was founded as the Canadian Museum of Carpets and Textiles in 1975 by Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers. Located above an ice cream shop in Mirvish Village the museum's collection was initially based on textiles collected during business trips. The museum relocated to its current location as in 1989.
Collection
The Textile Museum of Canada has a permanent collection of more than 13,000 textiles from around the world. Covering 2,000 years of textile history, the collection includes fabrics, ceremonial cloths, garments, carpets, quilts and related artifacts.
The museum presents curated exhibitions of contemporary work and historic and ethnographic artifacts drawn from its own and others’ collections. It is home to the H.N. Pullar Library, a reference collection of material focused on non-industrial textiles. The museum also offers lectures, round-table discussions, workshops, music and dance performances, hands-on demonstrations, school programs and public tours.
Canadian Tapestry: The Fabric of Cultural Diversity, one of the museum’s digitization projects, provides online access to 7,000 artifacts and a second phase will provide access to an additional 3,500 items.
Several of the museum's exhibits and publications have won multiple awards, including:
Affiliations
The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.