Today, the Textile Museum announced a new affiliation with George Washington University. The announcement brought word of the museum’s move to the university’s Foggy Bottom campus and inclusion in a new 35,000-square-foot space to be built starting in 2012.

The new building will be located at G and 21st Streets NW and bear both the names of The Textile Museum and the George Washington University Museum. The Textile Museum will include gallery and exhibition space for its collection of over 18,000 textiles and 20,000-volume research library.

The George Washington University Museum will also include gallery and exhibition space, as well as serve as an art and cultural center and house the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection and Center for National Capital Area Studies which describe the history and development of Washington, D.C.

The university also plans to construct a 20,000-square-foot facility at their Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Loudoun County, to study and house the Textile Museum and the university’s collections.

Construction on the new facilities is slated to be complete by 2014. The Textile Museum will continue operating at its current location at 2320 S Street NW until the new museum opens.