Textile Museum - Virtual Tour 360°

The Textile Museum is located in Prato and is one of the most important at national and European level on the history and development of weaving from antiquity to the present day.

The first nucleus of the museum was established in 1975 thanks to the donation of a corpus of fabrics from the 14th - 19th century by the private collector Loriano Bertini to the "Tullio Buzzi" Industrial Technical Institute, a school for the training of chemical, textile and mechanical experts.

The school hosted the collections until 1997 when the new headquarters in Piazza del Comune were inaugurated where the museum carried out its activity until April 2003.

Since 1975 the textile collections, thanks to the acquisitions of the former students of the textile institute, have grown to reach the current heritage which today is of absolute importance at an international level.

The art of textile processing is documented from the early Christian era to the present day in the various techniques of execution, for a total of about six thousand finds.

The museum's heritage is completed by a book collection, a collection of 19th century fashion figures, machinery, chemical dyeing samples and weaving preparation tools from various periods.

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Currently the Textile Museum is managed by a foundation made up of the municipality of Prato, the province of Prato, the Industrial Union, Cariprato, the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts.

In another part of the complex it is planned to house the municipal library and related services.

Map: Textile Museum - Virtual Tour 360°

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Address: Via Puccetti, 3, 59100
Prato (PO) Toscana
Latitude: 43.87656275115418
Longitude: 11.098358631134033
Site: http://www.museodeltessuto.it/...

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Type: Building
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Last update: 17/08/2022
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