Includes Pharaonic Egyptian and Coptic textiles.
This wonderful museum owns over 2 million examples of fine textiles, from silk to synthetics, and from 25 centuries Before Christ until today. They come from all over the world and represent one of the two biggest textile collections in existence.
The City of Lyon has long been associated with textile production, and its silk industry became a part of the city’s life-blood at the beginning of the 1800’s with the introduction of newer and faster methods of production invented during the industrial revolution.
The Textile Museum was opened to the public in 1864, and its administration was later taken over by Lyon’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who moved it to its present location in 1946. The building used to be the Governor of Lyon’s residence.
There is every kind of textile possible to be seen in its exhibitions, silk, of course, but also Pharaonic Egyptian, Oriental,Coptic, Persian and Byzantines to mention just a few.
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