Textile Museum of Canada

The Textile Museum of Canada, located Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and documentation of textiles. The Textile Museum of Canada was founded as the Canadian Museum of Carpets and Textiles in 1975 by Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers. The museum’s collection was initially based on textiles collected during business trips. The museum relocated to its current location as in 1989. The Textile Museum of Canada has a permanent collection of more than 13000 textiles from around the world. Covering 2000 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. The museum also offers lectures, round-table discussions, workshops, music and dance performances, hands-on demonstrations, school programs and public tours.