Textile Museum and Documentation Centre

The Textile Museum and Documentation Centre is a museum organization located in Terrassa, a city with an essential fabric subculture. Managed by way of a consortium along with Terrassa Town Council and Diputacio de Barcelona Barcelona Provincial Council, it gives a panoramic view of the distinct patterns and techniques used all over the global in cloth making during history. It is a part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.

The documentation centre has an in depth library specialising in textile and fashion, a photographic archive and a rich material series. The institution presents groups with one-of-a-kind offerings and, via its education centre and various agreements with universities and academic establishments, it promotes touch and the alternate of information amongst specialists in the zone. The museum has the Imatex image financial institution, via which groups and people can get entry to the museum's series,which essentially consists of garb and material samples, specially from the Mediterranean region, from the primary centuries of the Early Modern duration as much as the modern.

There are collections from China and India and a small series of samples from the pre-Columbian Americas. The museum also has a fabric recovery carrier and a lecture corridor. The museum's huge collection, with over 20,000 consultant pieces of fabric history from round the sector, is supplied in distinctive temporary monographic exhibitions, lasting among ten and 12 months within the Modernisme area on the first ground, and two to a few years on the second ground