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George
Hewitt Myers
1875-1957
To learn more about the founder of The Textile Museum and the history
of the institution, visit our online exhibition Ahead
of His Time: The Collecting Vision of George Hewitt Myers.
Buildings
The Textile Museum is housed in two historic buildings in the
Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Visitors enter the Museum
through the former home of the Museum's founding family which was
designed by John Russell Pope in 1913. Since 1925, the Museum's
galleries have been located in an adjacent building purchased by
George Hewitt Myers for this purpose. Large gardens behind the buildings
are open to the public during Museum hours.
For more information
on visiting the Museum, click here.
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History
In
1925 George Hewitt Myers founded The Textile Museum with a collection
of 275 rugs and 60 related textiles. Myers collected actively for
the Museum until his death in 1957, at which time the collection
had grown to encompass the textile arts of Africa, Asia and Latin
America. In Myers' time, the Museum was open by appointment only
and received several hundred visitors annually. Today, The Textile
Museum is one of the world's foremost specialized art museums and
receives 25,000 to 35,000 visitors each year from around the world.

An
exterior view of The Textile Museum

The
Textile Museum garden
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