Kurdish Textile Museum

Kurdish Textile Museum
Main hall of the Kurdish Textile Museum
Location in Arbil
Established	2004
Location	Arbil, Iraqi Kurdistan
Coordinates	36°11′24″N 44°00′35″E / 36.190123°N 44.009739°E / 36.190123; 44.009739
Type	Textile
Visitors	56369 (2008)
Website	KurdishTextileMuseum.com

The Kurdish Textile Museum is a museum devoted to textiles produced in Iraqi Kurdistan. It was established in 2004 and is located in a renovated mansion in the southeast quarter of the Citadel of Arbil and it is one of most visited places in Arbil (Hawler) and it contains a lot of ancient Kurdish textile and lifestyle.

Textile museums

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Central America	Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing

Europe	Bielsko-Biała Museum Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Bocholt textile museum Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź Centre National du Costume de Scene Costume Museum (Kastoria) Devonshire Collection of Period Costume Ethnographic Museum (Belgrade) Fashion and Textile Museum Fashion Museum, Bath Galleria del Costume Helmshore Mills Textile Museum Killerton Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs de Lyon Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture Museum of Jewellery in the Silver Way Museum of the History of the Greek Costume Museum of the Romanian Peasant Museo del Traje National Museum of Costume National Museum of Costume and Fashion Nordwolle Factory Museum Nottingham Industrial Museum Prato textile museum Quarry Bank Mill Queen Street Textile Museum Textilfabrik Cromford Victoria and Albert Museum Wigan Pier

Asia	Azerbaijan Carpet Museum Bhutan Textile Museum Bsous Silk Museum Calico Museum of Textiles Carpet Museum of Iran Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum Kurdish Textile Museum Lok Virsa Museum National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum National Textile Museum Sanskriti Textile Museum Textile Museum (Jakarta) Yokohama Silk Museum

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