American Craft Museum 
New York museum displays crafts by American artists. Exhibits include furnishings, glass, and jewelry.
http://www.americancraftmuseum.org
Bead Museum and Study Center 
Located in Washington D.C. Site includes information on events, membership, exhibits, a newsletter, and activities.
http://www.beadmuseumdc.org/
Canadian Craft Museum 
Basic museum information such as hours and location.
http://www.vancouverplus.ca/profile/383132/
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 
Museum devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design. Located in New York, the museum features applied arts and industrial design, drawings and prints, textiles, and wallcoverings.
http://ndm.si.edu/
Crafts Study Centre 
Houses a collection of 20th-century and contemporary objects, including ceramics, textiles, wood and calligraphy, reference books, documents, photographs and craftspeople's working notes. Located in The Surrey Institute of Art and Design.
http://www.craftscentre.surrart.ac.uk
Craftsman Farms 
Features the Gustav Stickley Museum, a National Historic Landmark in Parsippany, New Jersey. Provides details of the collection, the museum shop, a calendar of events, tour schedules, and directions.
http://www.parsippany.net/
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design 
Collection, with over 13,000 exhibits, includes works of textile art, ceramics, porcelain, leather, glass, jewelry, metalwork, furniture, and product design. Includes a staff directory, hours, admission fees, and directions to location in Tallinn, Estonia
http://www.etdm.ee/en/
Heard Museum 
Native American crafts from the 19th and 20th centuries.
http://www.heard.org/
Index of American Design 
From the National Gallery of Art, this site allows you to take tours of their collections of costumes, textiles, dolls, furniture, folk art, pottery, Shaker crafts, toys, woodcarving, and metalwork.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iad.htm
Mint Museum of Craft and Design and Mint Museum of Art 
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design features "objects in ceramics, glass, fiber, metal and wood." The Mint Museum of Art has "diverse permanent collections and changing exhibitions of regional, national
http://www.mintmuseum.org/
Old Crafts and Toy Museum 
Displays over ninety ancient crafts,including a smithy, a clogmakers' workshop, and a farm of yesteryear. Located in Barneveld in the Netherlands. [Dutch and English]
http://www.ambachtenmuseum.nl/
Renwick Gallery 
Part of the National Museum of American Art, the gallery features "decorative arts and crafts from early America to the present."
http://americanart.si.edu/renwick/
San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum 
Features contemporary craft, folk, and ethnic art from around the world. Site lists upcoming exhibitions, publications, and museum information.
http://www.folkart.com/~latitude/museums/m_sfcfam.htm
Society for Contemporary Craft 
Exhibition and lecture schedule, membership information, and museum store. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
http://www.contemporarycraft.org/
Teddy Bear Museum - Stratford, England 
Museum and shop located in a heritage 16th century building in the heart of Shakespeares' Stratford Warwick. Photographs and details of the collection and bears for sale.
http://www.theteddybearmuseum.com/
The Dowse Art Museum 
New Zealand museum exhibiting a collection of contemporary crafts.
http://www.huttcity.govt.nz/council/services/recreation/dowse/
The Marzipan Museum 
Features film showing the entire process of the almond and the production of the marzipan on the premises, display of modeled marzipan and workshop area. Includes hours and entrance fee. Located in Israel. [Hebrew and English]
http://www.marzipan-tavor.co.il
Victoria and Albert Museum. 
The V&A in London is a museum of the decorative arts. Founded in 1852 to support and encourage excellence in art and design, it was renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
White House Collection of American Crafts 
This collection "features seventy-two works by seventy-seven of America's leading craft artists of today." You can view all the pieces in the collection on the web site, divided into categories for ceramics, fiber, glass, metal, and wood.
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/whc/
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