London's Victoria & Albert museum
photos of knitted items from the Museum's collection, along with free patterns and other tidbits

New York's Museum of Art & Design
featuring an exhibition called Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting

toronto's textile museum
knitted lace and garments from Europe and South America

a knitting museum in norway
images from a website called Norway Needles

England's knitting & crochet guild
see samples of knitted items from over the centuries

knitting in World War 2
from the national World War II museum (with patterns!)

life magazine: November 24, 1941
the cover photo, featuring a knitter (a "how to knit" article was inside)