Textile Museum of Borås
Coordinates: 57°42′56″N 12°56′19″E / 57.71556°N 12.93861°E
The Textile Museum of Borås in a former textile factory building by the English architect P. Sidney Stott, 1898. A roof tower was taken away when adding a floor in 1916.
The Textile Museum of Borås (Swedish: Textilmuseet i Borås) is a museum of textile history in Borås, Sweden. It is located in a former textile factory building, Åkerlund's Cotton Spinning Ltd., which was built in 1898.
The Textile Museum is a city-owned museum with two missions. It is first an industrial and mechanical museum, showing the growth of the Swedish textile industry through spinning and yarn production, the weaving of fabrics, and the knitting of tricot. Secondly, it is a museum of creation, showing and collecting Swedish textile design from the 20th century onward.
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