Editing Button (section)

==In museums and galleries==
[[File:Peter Carl Fabergé - Buttons - 1966.490 - Cleveland Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|upright|Peter Carl Fabergé buttons in the Cleveland Museum of Art]]
Some [[museums]] and [[art galleries]] hold culturally, historically, politically, and/or artistically significant buttons in their collections. The [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] has many buttons,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?offset=0&limit=15&narrow=&q=button&commit=Search&quality=2&objectnamesearch=&placesearch=&after=&after-adbc=AD&before=&before-adbc=AD&namesearch=&materialsearch=&mnsearch=&locationsearch=&listing_type=image&orderby=0&order=0|title=Your Search Results &#124; Search the Collections &#124; Victoria and Albert Museum|website=collections.vam.ac.uk}}</ref> particularly in its [[Victoria and Albert Museum#Jewellery|jewellery collection]], as does the [[Smithsonian|Smithsonian Institution]].<ref>[http://americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/results.aspx?objtype=Sewing+Tools+and+Equipment:+Notions&objid=Button American Indian Buttons made with ivory, whalebone and ink] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221042738/https://americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/results.aspx?objtype=Sewing+Tools+and+Equipment:+Notions&objid=Button |date=2018-12-21 }} at the [[National Museum of the American Indian|Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian]].</ref><ref>[http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=50 Domestic button collection, circa 1935], from [[Washington, D.C.]], at the [[National Museum of American History|Smithsonian National Museum of American History]].</ref><ref>[http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=63886&img=1&pg=1 Uniform buttons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723123107/http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=63886&img=1&pg=1 |date=2011-07-23 }} of the [[United States Postal Service]] at 'Arago', the Smithsonian [[National Postal Museum]].</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/button-3704|title=Button &#124; Smithsonian American Art Museum|website=americanart.si.edu}}</ref>

Hammond Turner & Sons, a button-making company in [[Birmingham]], hosts an online museum with an image gallery and historical button-related articles,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hammond-turner.com/|title=Hammond-Turner.com – Online Button Museum|website=hammond-turner.com}}</ref> including an 1852 article on button-making by [[Charles Dickens]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hammond-turner.com/?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=9|title=Hammond-Turner.com – Online Button Museum|website=hammond-turner.com}}</ref> In the US, large [[button collecting|button collections]] are on public display at the Waterbury Button Museum of [[Waterbury, Connecticut]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mattmuseum.org/|title=Mattatuck Museum &#124; Art Exhibitions & Educational Programs in CT|website=Mattatuck Museum}}</ref> the Keep Homestead Museum of [[Monson, Massachusetts]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://keephomesteadmuseum.org/|title=Keep Homestead Museum|website=keephomesteadmuseum.org}}</ref> which also hosts an extensive button archive,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://keephomesteadmuseum.org/button.htm|title=Keep Homestead Museum - Button Collection|website=keephomesteadmuseum.org|access-date=2020-04-30|archive-date=2020-01-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200119093354/https://keephomesteadmuseum.org/button.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>  and in Gurnee, Illinois, at The Button Room.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thebuttonroom.org/|title=The Button Room|access-date=2012-02-28|archive-date=2020-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127110009/http://thebuttonroom.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref>