“Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War” at American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, through November 25, 2012

July 13, 2012

A Civil War textile exhibit is at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, now through November 25, 2012, which consists of two dozen quilts and about 125 related objects.   For more info: http://www.athm.org/exhibitions/current_exhibitions/

and more detailed info: http://www.athm.org/exhibitions/current_exhibitions/exhibition_homefront_battlefield.php

Photo is the Museum’s.

I understand that you can still see the exhibit  if you don’t get to Lowell, as it will  travel to the New York Historical Society in New York from April 14- August 31, 2014,

Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, from  September 20, 2014 to January  1, 2015,

and  to Nebraska State Historical Society in  Lincoln from February 1- June 1, 2015.

Posted by woodhavenstudio on July 13, 2012

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