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…

SOUTH ENGLAND 

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World

• National Portrait Gallery, London

• Closes 11 January 2026
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Design and Disability

• The V&A, London
• Closes 15 February 2026
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Performance Without Toxicity

• Fabrica X innovation gallery, London

• 26 January – 26 June 2026
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Gianni Versace Retrospective

• Arches London Bridge, London
• Closes 1 March 2026
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Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop

• Fashion and Textile Museum, London
• Closes 8 March 2026
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Marie Antoinette Style

• The V&A, London
• Closes 22 March 2026
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Paint! Pattern! Print!

• Fashion and Textile Museum, London
• 27 March 2026 – 13 September 2026
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Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art

• The V&A, London
• Opens 28 March 2026
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Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles

• William Morris Gallery, London

• Closes 21 June 2026
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Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion

• Barbican Art Gallery, London
• Closes 25 January 2026
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Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait

• National Portrait Gallery, London
• 4 June – 6 September 2026
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NIGO: From Japan with Love

• The Design Museum, London
• 1 May – 4 October 2026
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Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style

• The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
• 10 April – 18 October 2026
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The 90s

• Tate Britain, London

• 8 October 2026 – 14 February 2027
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Zandra Rhodes: A Life in Print

• The Holburne Museum, Bath

• 24 January – 10 May 2026
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NORTH ENGLAND 

Vivienne Westwood: Rebel – Storyteller – Visionary

• The Bowes Museum, County Durham

• 28 March – 6 September 2026
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Impressions of Light: Masterpieces from MuMa

• The Bowes Museum, County Durham

• 26 September 2026 – 14 March 2027
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Lace and Legacy: Fashion Treasures from The Blackborne Collection 

• The Bowes Museum, County Durham

• 14 November 2026 – 11 April 2027
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WORN: the life within clothes

• Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

• 26 March 2026  –  13 February 2028
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Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven

• Whitworth gallery, Manchester

• 10 July 2026 – 3 January 2027
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Vivienne Westwood: Designer in Focus

• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

• Closes 17 October 2026
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Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Life

• Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

• Closes 22 February 2026
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Fashion Extremes!

• Bankfield Museum, Halifax

• 31 January – 19 December 2026
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SCOTLAND

IKEA: Magical Patterns

• Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

• Closes 17 January 2026

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Drawing on Style: Original Fashion Illustration

• Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

• 10 January – 11 April 2026

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The Biba Story: 1964–1975

• Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

• 6 February – 27 June 2026

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Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop

• Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh,
• 18 July 2026 – 9 January 2027
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Flora, Fauna & Fabric: Where art meets fashion

• Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh

• 16 – 19 October 2026

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Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine

• The V&A Dundee
• Closes 26 April 2026
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Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show

• V&A Dundee

• 3 April 2026 – 17 January 2027

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Design and Disability

• The V&A Dundee
• Opening Friday 5 June 2026
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The Scottish Quilting Show

• SEC, Glasgow

• 5 – 7 March 2026

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Barbie®: The Exhibition

• Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

• 13 June – 18 October 2026

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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)

Platt Hall (Manchester)

Science and Industry Museum, textiles gallery (Manchester)

Quarry Bank Mill (Cheshire)

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum (Lancashire)

Queen Street Mill (Lancashire)

York Castle Museum (York)

Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool)

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