St.Gallen Textile Museum

The Textile Museum was built in 1878 as a platform for training designers, presenting aesthetic innovations and inspiring through design. Today it is home to an internationally unique collection of 30'000 items.

History:
Since 1863, the Merchant’s Directorate of St.Gallen regularly bought fabric patterns from around the world and put them on display in a sample room. In 1878, the Industry and Trade Museum was founded. With it arose the need for a building of its own.

Architecture:
In 1886, the museum was ready. The four-story brick building is 40m long and begins with the raised ground floor on a granite base, half a story high. The fourth floor is set back behind the roof ledge and thus emphasises the building’s tower shape.

Present-day use:
Today, too, the Textile Museum is a living platform for both historic and innovative textile design. For a country like Switzerland, without natural resources or a privileged climate, taste and its development are an economic necessity.

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St.Gallen Textile Museum

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