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The National Quilt Museum honors today’s quilters and inspires future quilters with exceptional exhibitions, education, and programming. Our vision is to be America’s premier quilt museum, celebrating innovative and extraordinary quilts from the United States and around the world.
Our home, Paducah, KY, is one of only a handful of UNESCO Creative Cities in the United States and offers an array of rich cultural experiences to enjoy during your visit.
CURRENT EXHIBITS
July 26, 2024 – February 25, 2025
Joe Mallard: Threading His Grandmother’s Needles
Mr. Mallard’s quilts are unique in that they are comprised of tens of thousands of tiny, colorful hand tied knots and stitches. He traces an outline of his design on canvas, stitches neckties and other objects onto the surface, and then fills the surrounding space with a swirl of color and commentary
Ongoing
The National Quilt Museum Collection
The collection of the National Quilt Museum includes extraordinary quilted artwork representing today’s quilters from the United States and around the world. Quilts in our collection are all made after 1980, and represent the best of contemporary quilting in a wide range of styles, techniques, inspiration, and unique artistic voices.
January 13 – March 11, 2025
School Block Challenge 2025
School Block Challenge is a quilt block competition and exhibit, sponsored by Moda Fabrics, for children grades K-12 nationwide. Entries are judged in the following categories: K-4th grade, 5th–8th grade, 9th–12th grade.
January 24 – September 9, 2025
Victoria Findlay Wolfe: Option Expedition
In Option Expedition, Victoria Findlay Wolfe takes basic shapes of patchwork — square, circle, triangle, parallelogram — and breaks down design principles of space, balance, scale, line, shape, color, emphasis, contrast, value, repetition, movement, texture, and unity to look at the bold, beautiful choices available.
New Quilts from an Old Favorite
2026 Competition
This biennial contest and traveling exhibition organized by The National Quilt Museum challenges quiltmakers to create innovative original quilts combining traditional patterns with varied cultural themes.
Visit the NQM Shop
Stop in to the Museum Shop on your next visit to NQM and browse our unique selection of gifts, including quilting and quilt-themed inventory, artworks and crafts by regional makers, t-shirts, books and more!
The National Quilt Museum is a 501c3 non-profit partially funded by:
