The New England Quilt Museum is a landmark in the heart of America's historic textile-producing region, housed in a 19th century former bank building in the heart of lovely downtown Lowell, Massachusetts.

The museum is the only institution in the northeast solely dedicated to the art and craft of quilting, both traditional and contemporary. Through special exhibits, workshops, lectures, and a variety of community outreach activities, the non-profit New England Quilt Museum studies, preserves, and promotes this very American art form. The Museum Shop carries a wide variety of books, jewelry, fabric, toys, and other items of interest to the quilter and non-quilter alike. The Permanent Collection contains antique and contemporary quilts, quilt tops, textile samples, and sewing ephemera, portions of which are rotated out of storage and displayed as part of four or more special exhibitions mounted each year.