The UK is home to a variety of museums and galleries that host permanent and seasonal fashion and textile exhibitions. Discover some of the latest exhibitions, galleries and museums below…

The Face Magazine: Culture Shift

• National Portrait Gallery, London
• 20 February – 18 May 2025
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Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style

• The Design Museum, London
• 28 March – 17 August 2025
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The Edwardians: Age of Elegance

• The King’s Gallery, London
• 11 April – 23 November 2025
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Cartier

• The V&A, London
• 12 April – 16 November 2025
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Leigh Bowery

• Tate Modern, London
• 27 February – 31 august 2025
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NAOMI: In Fashion

• The V&A, London
• 22 June 2024 – 6 April 2025
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Design and disability

• The V&A, London
• 7 June 2025 – 15 February 2026
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Marie Antoinette Style

• The V&A, London
• 20 September 2025 – 22 March 2026
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Making Egypt

• The V&A, London
• 15 February – 2 November 2025
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Dress Codes

• Kensington Palace, London
• Opens 13 March 2025
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Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London

• Fashion & Textile Museum, London
• 4 October 2024 – 9 March 2025
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Ptolemy Mann: Woven Colour

• Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 9 November 2024 – 15 March 2025
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Unpicking Couture

• Manchester Art Gallery
• 21 July 2023 – 2 November 2025
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Children’s Clothing Through the Ages

• Lotherton Hall, West Yorkshire
• 1 March – 12 October 2025
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Picasso to Warhol

• Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
• 23 November 2024 – 13 April 2025
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Lyle & Scott 150 Exhibition

• Borders Textile Towerhouse
• 6 June 2024 – 8 March 2025
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For the Love of Fibre & Felt Exhibition by Ann Smith

• Borders Textile Towerhouse
• 2 November 2024 – 3 February 2025
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Socks: The Art of Care and Repair

• NOW Gallery, London
• 6 December – 9 March 2025
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VOGUE: Inventing the Runway

• Lightroom, London
• 13 November 2024 – 26 April 2025
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Making Headway: Celebrating Sustainability in Hats

• The Hat Works, Luton
• 20 September – 14 November 2025
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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)

The Bowes Museum (County Durham)

Trowbridge Museum (Wiltshire)

SCOTLAND

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

National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow, Scotland)

Borders Textile Towerhouse (Hawick, Scotland)

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

Shetland Museum and Archives (Shetland, Scotland)

Unst Heritage Trust  (Shetland, Scotland)

Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Borders Textile Towerhouse (Hawick, Scotland)

WALES

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

Newtown Textile Museum (Newtown, Powys, Wales)

The Welsh Quilt Centre (Lampeter, 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