Museo del Tessuto

Come and discover a world apart, inside the incredible Textile Museum of Prato!

We are waiting for you in the splendid Tuscany, in Prato precisely, to visit the largest cultural center in Italy dedicated to the valorization of art and textile production ancient and contemporary.

To date, Prato represents one of the most important textile districts in Europewith over 6,000 fabric companies. It is one of the most important textile centers in the world: the Prato textile tradition has its roots in the Middle Ages.

This is how history passes from the city's textile vocation, dating back to 1300, when the first "fulling mills", factories specialized in fulling the wool cloth, to the industrialization era, which dates back to 1800.

Today, it is possible to visit the Museum, which is housed in an industrial building, the former Cimatoria Campolmi, probably the most important example of industrial archeology in the province of >Meadow.

Here, you will have the opportunity to observe fixed and temporary exhibitions, discover artists of the past and great stylists of the present.
What are you waiting for? Come and visit us in Prato!