Places to Visit

Museums & Exhibitions

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This page includes links to places to visit that might be of interest if you are interested in textiles or designing generally.

Always check the venue's website to see what is on & for details opening times etc.


American Museum (Bath)

Barbican (London)

Birmingham Science Museum ThinkTank

BMW Museum

Bristol Science Centre 

Centre for Alternative Technology 

Coleman’s Mustard Museum 

Clothes Show   (Birmingham)

Design Museum (London)

Dr Who Experience (Cardiff)

Fashion & Textile Museum (London)

Head of Steam Railway Museum

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum  (Coventry)

Iron bridge Gorge Museum  (Telford)

Imperial War Museum (London)

Knitting & Stitching Show 

Leeds Castle

Life Science Centre  (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

London Sewing Machine Museum 

Mackintosh Visitor Centre in Glasgow School of Art

Mackintosh Centre at The Lighthouse (Glasgow)

http://www.glasgowmackintosh.com (Glasgow)

Made North Gallery, Sheffield 

MAD Museum (Mechanical Art & Design Museum)

Museum of Brands (London)

Museum on the Arts and Crafts Movement  (Cheltenham))

Museum on lawnmowers  

Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester)

National Centre for Craft and Design (Lincoln)

New Designers (London)

Pencil Museum  (Cumbria)

RSA Summer Science Exhibition 

Science Museum (London)

Tate Liverpool

The Good Food Show

The Hat Works Museum (Stockport)

Wimbledon Tennis Museum  (London)

Website summarising the different places to visit in Scotland to do with textiles

V&A Shoes (London)


Other places to visit

Go Shopping! Shopping is an excellent way to revise and think about textiles products. 

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  • Ask yourself lots of questions about what you see
  • Set yourself things to go and research when you shop
  • Set yourself tasks to do based on what you saw when out shopping
  • Write questions to ask your teacher
  • Keep a sketchbook / blog of what you see


Visit shops that are famous for what they sell:

Liberty

Vivienne Westwood (and other designer brands)

Harrods


Let me know if you visit anywhere interesting you think should be added to this page julie@julieboyd.co.uk 


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