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 The Quilt Museum & Gallery is owned and managed by The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles. The Guild is an educational charity working to promote the understanding, appreciation and knowledge of the art, techniques and heritage of patchwork, quilting and appliqué.
 The Guild began to collect quilts in the early 1980s, originally as
a reference collection for quilters who wished to study the history of
their craft. The collection has now increased to over 600 items and
includes the earliest dated patchwork coverlet in the United Kingdom,
the 1718 Coverlet. It also has many significant and representative quilts,
coverlets, unfinished tops, quilt fragments, appliqué hangings, small
domestic items and articles of pieced and quilted clothing, both
historical and contemporary.
The museum collection also contains quilting tools, patterns and
templates, oral history tapes, photographs, documents, and a large
collection of fabric samples. This includes the fabric sample
collection put together by the patchwork and quilting historian, Averil
Colby.
The museum's Director is Fiona Diaper.
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