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Textile Museum

Address: 2320 S St. NW, Kalorama, Washington, DC | Map It
Phone: 202/667-0441
www.textilemuseum.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Kalorama

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Fodor's Review:

In the 1890s, George Hewitt Myers, an heir to the Bristol-Myers fortune, bought his first Oriental rug for his dorm room at Yale. Later, Myers lived two houses down from Woodrow Wilson, at 2310 S Street, in a home designed by John Russell Pope, architect of the National Archives and the Jefferson Memorial. Myers bought the Waddy B. Wood-designed house next door, at No. 2320, and opened his museum to the public in 1925. Today the collection includes more than 17,000 textiles and carpets. Rotating exhibits are taken from a permanent collection of historic and ethnographic items that include Coptic and pre-Columbian textiles, Kashmir embroidery, and Turkman tribal rugs. There's at least one show of modern textiles—such as quilts or fiber art—yearly.

Cost: Suggested donation $5
Open: Mon.-Sat. 10-5, Sun. 1-5; highlight tours Sept.-May, Wed. and weekends at 1:30
Metro: Dupont Circle

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