The National Museum is Denmark’s state, cultural historical main museum, covering both Denmark and foreign cultures. The National Museum wishes to make its rich collections as accessible as possible, so that they can form an inspiring basis for research, teaching, understanding and interpretation of cultural history. The National Museum carries out a number of key tasks on a national level, within the following areas in particular: archaeology, cultural anthropology, numismatics, ethnography, natural science, conservation, communication, advice on church restoration, handling of treasure trove (‘danefæ’) and loan of the museum’s objects.

The Swedish History Museum is one of the biggest museums in Sweden. Every year tens of thousands of visitors come from Sweden and around the world to see one of the world’s largest Viking exhibits, Sweden’s foremost gold and silver treasures, incomparable medieval art and unique finds from one of the most violent battles of Swedish history – the Battle of Gotland 1361.

Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society in the sciences and humanities.

The Institute supports archaeological fieldwork, archaeological science, material culture studies, and archaeological theory in an interdisciplinary framework. Since its inception, the Institute has played a particularly leading role in cognitive archaeology, broadly defined. It sponsors seminar series, workshops and international conferences. It produces the Cambridge Archaeological Journal and publishes the McDonald Institute Monographs.

THE NEEDHAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE is the home of the Science and Civilisation in China Project, and houses the East Asian History of Science Library. As a recognised global centre of study, the NRI offers a unique collection of books and other published materials on the history of science, technology and medicine in East Asia, and welcomes scholars from all over the world.

IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.

China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou was opened first in Feb 1992 and will be reopened in Sept 2016, and now becomes one of the first state-level museums in China, where you’ll find 9,0000 square meters of displays, divided into several galleries, in a typical southern Chinese garden of 40,000 square meters.

The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items (the numismatic collection accounts for about one third of them) including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum.

The Republic of Uzbekistan gained independence in 1991 that was the most important event in life of the country, which opened a new stage in its historical development. In accordance with the 1992 Constitution, with a strong commitment to the provisions and conclusions contained in writings and speeches of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Academician Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, the country wages the course of development on the basis of full-scale consolidation of its sovereignty and qualitative renewal of all spheres of political, economic, social, cultural and spiritual life of the people.

The ICOMOS International Conservation Center-Xi'an (IICC-X) is an international research, training and cooperation center, established as an initiative of ICOMOS China. Its purpose is to support international and regional cooperation for the conservation of monuments, sites and their settings in Asia and the Pacific. IICC-X is located in the picturesque Historic and Cultural Park of Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. It is officially founded on October 20th, 2006, following the adoption of Xi'an Declaration: on Conservation of the Settings of Heritage Structures, Sites and Areas, which was presented on the 15th General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) held in Xi'an in October, 2005.

Fashion • Art Design Institute of Donghua University has the highest level of fashion discipline in China and enjoys high international fame. It started enrolling fashion major undergraduates in 1984. After 25 years’ effort (until the end of 2009), it has grown from a fashion department into an institute with its distinctive feature. The Institute has established an education system of three levels: bachelor, master, and doctor. Currently, it has nearly 2500 undergraduates, 500 postgraduate students and over 50 Ph.D. candidates. The goal and positioning of the Institute is “to train young professionals in fashion industry and art design fields with international perspective, innovative spirit, well-grounded academic theories and market expertise.” Ever since its establishment, the Institute has worked hard to realize the idea of “focusing on the overall development of students”. Generations after generations of excellent students have graduated from the Institute and have become the backbone of society and pride of Donghua!

The predecessor of the Institute for History of Natural Sciences (IHNS) was the Research Department on the History of Natural Sciences at CAS, which was established in January 1957 on the initiative of the Vice-president of CAS, Prof.ZHU Kezhen. The Department was expanded to become a research institute in 1975, forming a multidisciplinary and comprehensive national institute specialized in the study of the history of science and technology (S&T).

A flourishing spring of scholarly development began after the fall of the “Gang of Four” in October of 1976. In January of 1978, Professor Deng Guang-ming and his colleagues set forth the idea of an organization to research the Tang and Song era (618-1279). In October of 1982, the Ministry of Education formally authorized the establishment of Peking University’s Center for Research on the Middle Period of Chinese History as a research institute with rank equivalent to a department. Presently the Center has 13 fulltime researchers, including 10 professors, 2 associate professors and 1 lecturer ; there are also 8 affiliated researchers.

The museum’s mission is to collect, display, preserve, and serve as a center for all who wish to learn about textiles, past and present, from Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Asia, with a special emphasis on the textiles of, and related to, the royal court and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit. Additionally, its goal is to create public awareness of Thai identity 
and culture, and the beauty of Thai traditional textiles, through research, exhibition, 
and interpretation. The museum’s objectives, set by Her Majesty, are being achieved by 
the museum staff, guided by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.

Our mission is to educate and inspire students to discover their passion, become innovative leaders with character, and make a difference around the world. Our innovative academic programs are attuned to the needs of industry and society.

The University of Padova is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious seats of learning; it is a multi-disciplinary university that aims to provide its students with both professional training and a solid cultural background. A qualification from the University of Padova is a symbol of having achieved an ambitious objective, one that is recognised and coveted by both students and employers alike.

The IAA is responsible for protecting the antiquities of the country. Its many tasks are achieved by the institution’s devoted workers, who are organized in many departments and operate in different districts throughout the country.

Korea National University of Cultural Heritage(NUCH) was established as a national four-year institution of higher education in 2000 by the Cultural Heritage Administration. The University was conceived to nurture a workforce equipped with specialist skills, knowledge and expertise that would contribute to the national effort to preserve and develop the rich, invaluable tradition and culture bequeathed to Korea by its long history. As a higher educational institution committed to providing systematic educational programs on the preservation, management and utilization of the nation’s cultural heritage, NUCH aims to contribute to the preservation and development of the cultural heritage by producing world-class specialists armed with supreme competitiveness and on-site experience in the various areas concerned.

In 2005-2016, the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research (CTR) focuses on textile history. This is being realised via substantial research programmes, as well as via the research training of young scholars, and a variety of activities connected with textile history involving universities, museums and design schools. The CTR organises seminars, conferences and courses in textile history on all academic levels. CTR is located at the University of Copenhagen/SAXO Institute and at the National Museum of Denmark.

IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.

The Needham Research Institute, a centre for the study of the history of East Asian science, technology and medicine, is the home of the Science and Civilisation in China Project, and houses the East Asian History of Science Library. As a recognised global centre of study, the NRI offers a unique collection of books and other published materials on the history of science, technology and medicine in East Asia, and welcomes scholars from all over the world.
Our mission is to create a wider understanding of the historical contribution of the people of China, Japan and Korea to the scientific and technical culture of humankind, through research, publication and public outreach.

The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research serves as an interdisciplinary hub aiming to provide a shared intellectual home for archaeologists at Cambridge with a programme of seminars, workshops, conferences, publications and research grants as well as laboratory space for a wide range of archaeological research which crosses continents, periods and approaches in its exploration of the diversity of the human past.

Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than eighty research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society in the sciences and humanities. At any given moment, there are approximately 75 scholars working at the MPIWG, from pre- and post-doctoral fellows to senior visiting scholars. Their backgrounds are multidisciplinary and international.