Pack up the kids and take in a show of antique quilts.
Here's a list through the spring of 2019.
Alabama, Birmingham
Birmingham Museum of Art. The Original Makers: Folk Art from the Cargo Collection, an exhibition featuring more than 160 outstanding works of folk art from the Museum’s permanent collection. Through December 30, 2018.
Arkansas, Fort Smith
Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Bold Improvisation: Searching for African-American Quilts, The Heffley Collection. February 1 – May 5, 2019http://fsram.org/exhibitions/bold-improvisation-120-years-of-african-american-quilts/
Buzz Saw by Docella Johnson
Arkansas, Little Rock
The Old State House Museum. A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans. Years ago the late Cuesta Benberry curated this exhibit of quilts from the collection, now rehung and up through Fall, 2019.
Florida Quilt Museum. Exhibit of Judy Kaman Grow's collection. November 28 - March, 2019.
https://floridaquiltmuseum.com/
Georgia, Roswell
The Bulloch Hall Quilt Guild's Annual Quilt Show often has antique quilts.
March 8-17, 2019.
Illinois State Museum. Bicentennial and Beyond! The Illinois Legacy Collection includes at least two quilts, one a G.A.R. fundraiser, the other Albert Small's 120,000 piece hexagon quilt. Through February 3, 2019.
http://www.illinoisstatemuseum.org/content/bicentennial-and-beyond-illinois-legacy-collection
Iowa, Winterset
Iowa Quilt Museum. Waste Not, Want Not, curated by Virginia Berger. Through January 27, 2019
http://iowaquiltmuseum.org/
Kansas, North Newton
Bethel College, Kauffman Museum, Better Choose Me: Collecting and Creating with Tobacco Fabric Novelties, 1880-1920. Through January 20, 2019.
Bethel College, Kauffman Museum, Better Choose Me: Collecting and Creating with Tobacco Fabric Novelties, 1880-1920. Through January 20, 2019.
Kentucky, Bowling Green
Western Kentucky University Museum. Kaleidoscope. Thirty quilts from the collection. Through December, 2018.
Kentucky, Paducah
National Quilt Museum. Kansas City Star Quilts from Edie McGinnis's collection. Through December 4, 2018
https://quiltmuseum.org/visit/
Massachusetts, Sturbridge
Old Sturbridge Village. Early New England Quilts: Repurposed, Refashioned, and Recycled. Highlighting some of the ingenious ways women reused, re-purposed, and refashioned materials into quilts. Through February, 2019.
International Quilt Study Center & Museum/Quilt House.
https://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions
Discovering the Collection: A 20-Year Journey Carolyn Ducey, Curator of Collections. Through March 3, 2019
Mark Dunn Collection. Through January 10, 2019
Cheddar Quilts from the Joanna S. Rose Collection
Through February 3, 2019
5 Southern Quilts From the Kathlyn Sullivan Collection. Through February 17, 2019.
Nebraska History Museum, Color Quest. Quilts from the collection. Through January 5, 2019. https://history.nebraska.gov/color-quest
Nebraska, Omaha
Joslyn Museum. Pattern and Purpose: American Quilts from the Shelburne Museum.Through January 6, 2019.
https://www.joslyn.org/collections-and-exhibitions/temporary-exhibitions/details.aspx?ID=1449
Joslyn Museum. Pattern and Purpose: American Quilts from the Shelburne Museum.Through January 6, 2019.
https://www.joslyn.org/collections-and-exhibitions/temporary-exhibitions/details.aspx?ID=1449
New Jersey, Morristown
Morris Museum. Stitch by Stitch: Quilts and Coverlets from the Permanent Collection. "Get cozy with the Morris Museum’s expansive collection of quilts and coverlets, many exhibited for the first time." Through December 9, 2018.
http://morrismuseum.org/
Ohio, Cincinnati
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Ohio, Cincinnati
Cincinnati Art Museum. The Fabric of India, handmade textiles, exhibit from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Through January 6, 2019. Travels to Sarasota, Florida in 2019.
http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/fabricofindia
Pennsylvania, Bedford
National Museum of the American Coverlet. Comfortable Cousins: Related Quilts & Coverlets from a Golden Age. Catalog available. Through spring, 2019.
http://www.coverletmuseum.org/exhibitions.htmTennessee, Cleveland
Museum Center at Five Points, Stitches in Time Annual Quilt Show often includes antique quilts. January 31 - February 28, 2019
http://www.museumcenter.org/calendar-1/2019/1/31/stitches-in-time-annual-quilt-show
Virginia Quilt Museum.
Mountain Mist Quilts: 20th Century Favorites, examples of early patterns and 21st century versions. Color catalog available.
Treasures From the Vault: This is my Name, curated by Gloria Comstock. Signature quilts.
Through December 20, 2018.
http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/
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Virginia, Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and the Home, 1700-1820 includes a few quilts (one with a John Hewson panel) and a lot of early fabric. Through 2018.
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/art-museums/rockefeller-museum/century-of-quilts/
Washington D.C.
Virginia, Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and the Home, 1700-1820 includes a few quilts (one with a John Hewson panel) and a lot of early fabric. Through 2018.
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/art-museums/rockefeller-museum/century-of-quilts/
Washington D.C.
DAR Museum has scheduled a quilt show opening in April, 2019.
Washington, La Conner
Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, Tharpe Family Collection: Civil War Era Quilts.
January 30- April 28, 2019
France, Paris