Collections

Places to see East European art, textiles and dress.

In the UK:

• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
• Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire
• Kay-Shuttleworth collection, Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, Lancashire
• Haslemere Museum, Surrey
• Embroiderers’ Guild Collection
• Almost all the Russian textiles in UK collections are in the museum stores. To see them it would be necessary to make arrangements with the curators.

In Russia:

• State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• The Armoury, Kremlin, Moscow – court and ecclesiastical dress
• State Historical Museum, (History Museum), Moscow- folk textiles and fashionable dress
• Abramtsevo Museum-Preserve (near Moscow)
• Novy Jerusalim Monastery, Istra (near Moscow) – ecclesiastical embroideries
• Sergiev Posad (near Moscow) – folk and ecclesiastical embroideries
• Museum of Ethnography, St Petersburg – folk embroideries and dress
• The Russian Museum, St Petersburg – folk embroideries (not always on display)
• Museum of the City of St Petersburg (inside Peter & Paul Fortress) – fashionable dress
• Pavlovsk Palace (costume gallery), near St Petersburg – court and fashionable dress
• Museum of Printed Textiles, Ivanovo, Vladimir region
• Open-air museum preserve, Suzdal, Vladimir region

In Ukraine:

• State Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Arts, Kyiv
• Ivan Honchar Museum (Ukrainian Centre of Folk Culture), Kyiv
• Open-air museum preserve, Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky (near Kyiv) – folk dress and towels
• Historical Museum, Chernihiv – embroidered cloths of the ‘cossack elite’
• Museum of Folk & Decorative Art, Chernihiv
• Museum of Ethnography & Crafts, Lviv

In Poland:

• National Museum in Warsaw
• Museum of Archaeology & Ethnography, Lodz
• Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz
• Ethnographic Museum, Poznan (inc. collection of Wielskopolska region dress)
• National Museum, Poznan (gallery of fine and decorative arts)
• Museum of Technology & Textile Industry, Bielsko-Biala
• National Museum, Krakow
• Ethnographic Museum, Krakow
• Stanislaw Wyspianski Museum, Krakow

In Romania:

• National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest
• Open-air Village Museum, Bucharest
• Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
• Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania, Cluj
• National Ethnographic Park ‘Romulus Vuia’, Cluj
• Ethnographic Museum, Radauti (Bukovina region)

In Slovenia:

• Slovene Museum of Ethnography, Ljubljana, Slovenia