- American Craft Museum
New York museum displays crafts by American artists. Exhibits include furnishings, glass, and jewelry.
- Bead Museum and Study Center
Located in Washington D.C. Site includes information on events, membership, exhibits, a newsletter, and activities.
- Canadian Craft Museum
Basic museum information such as hours and location.
- Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
Features a collection of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, which includes furniture, pottery, silver, metalwork, jewellery, plasterwork, textiles and leatherwork.
- Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Museum devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design. Located in New York, the museum features applied arts and industrial design, drawings and prints, textiles, and wallcoverings.
- Crafts Council of England
Site includes information about exhibitions, events, and fairs.
- Crafts Study Centre
Houses a collection of 20th-century and contemporary objects, including ceramics, textiles, wood and calligraphy, reference books, documents, photographs and craftspeople's working notes. Located in The Surrey Institute of Art and Design.
- Craftsman Farms
The home page of Craftsman Farms, the Gustav Stickley Museum and center for the study of the American Arts and Crafts movement in Parsippany, New Jersey.
- Heard Museum
Native American crafts from the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Index of American Design
From the National Gallery of Art, this site allows you to take tours of their collections of costumes, textiles, dolls, furniture, folk art, pottery, Shaker crafts, toys, woodcarving, and metalwork.
- Mint Museum of Craft and Design and Mint Museum of Art
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design features "objects in ceramics, glass, fiber, metal and wood." The Mint Museum of Art has "diverse permanent collections and changing exhibitions of regional, national and international artists and cultures."
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
An annual show, site includes show information and an archive of photos.
- Precita Eyes Mural Arts and Visitors Center, San Francisco
Site includes photos of some featured murals, information about the center, classes, and tours.
- Renwick Gallery
Part of the National Museum of American Art, the gallery features "decorative arts and crafts from early America to the present."
- San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum
Features contemporary craft, folk, and ethnic art from around the world. Site lists upcoming exhibitions, publications, and museum information.
- Society for Contemporary Craft
Exhibition and lecture schedule, membership information, and museum store. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Teddy Bear Museum - Stratford, England
Museum and shop located in a heritage 16th century building in the heart of Shakespeares' Stratford Warwick. Photographs and details of the collection and bears for sale.
- The Craftmuseum of Finland
Covers all techniques of handicraft from house building to lace making.
- The Dowse Art Museum
New Zealand museum exhibiting a collection of contemporary crafts.
- The Marzipan Museum
Features film showing the entire process of the almond and the production of the marzipan on the premises, display of modeled marzipan and workshop area. Includes hours and entrance fee. Located in Israel. [Hebrew and English]
- Victoria and Albert Museum.
The V&A in London is a museum of the decorative arts. Founded in 1852 to support and encourage excellence in art and design, it was renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria.
- White House Collection of American Crafts
This collection "features seventy-two works by seventy-seven of America's leading craft artists of today." You can view all the pieces in the collection on the web site, divided into categories for ceramics, fiber, glass, metal, and wood.
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