Centrum Museum of Textiles

The idea of organizing the museum of textiles in Lodz was born already in 1946. In the city with rich textile tradition, the biggest Polish centre of textile industry, this idea seemed unquestioned. The conception was reminded to the authorities of the City, Ministry of Art and Culture in 1949, 1950, 1951, but it was only in 1952 when the department of textiles (not the museum) was established in the Museum of Art in Lodz. After 1955 it had its seat, although it was connected with evicting of the former users, major repair and adaptation. The seat was the White Factory, a magnificent complex of classicist buildings, one of the most beautiful monuments of industrial architecture in Poland.


Erected by Ludwig Geyer in 1835-1839, the White Factory (many times expanded and re-built) was the first in Poland multi-department factory. It housed the first in Poland mechanical spinning, weaving and printing rooms for cotton, driven by steam machine. The collection of the department was growing quickly. Exhibitions displayed in specially selected space of the Museum of Art, in textile factories in Łodz and in numerous cultural institutions in Poland, aroused much interest and were very popular. Therefore, decision was taken to make the department “independent” as Branch of the Museum of Art. This situation lasted only for several months in 1959. In 1960 Museum of the History of Textiles was established, a separate independent institution. In 1975 the new name was given – the Central Museum of Textiles. Slowly, with many problems, various parts of the four-wing complex were given to the museum, after necessary overhaul and adaptations. After 50 years from the moment when the Minister of Light Industry decided to concede the White Factory as the seat of the museum, this decision has finally been carried in effect. The scientific, collector and promotion interests of the museum concentrate around everything related to textile manufacturing process – from materials, through textile techniques and technologies to textiles products representing various processing degree. This assumption results in the fact that apart from textiles they also collect other non-textiles fibres, felts, knitting as well as garments made of them and contemporary artworks created from paper (because linen and cotton “end” their lives in paper mills). Collections are gathered, scientifically elaborated, conserved and, in various forms, displayed by the specialized thematic departments of the museum.

Address: 282 Piotrkowska Street

Opening hours:
Mondays – closed

Tuesdays – Wednesdays - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Thursdays - 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Fridays - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Saturdays – Sundays - 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

[Lodz]

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