The Textile Museum and Documentation Centre ( ca, Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil) is a museum institution located in
Terrassa
Terrassa (, es, Tarrasa) is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona, '' comarca'' of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the co-capital along with Sabadell.
The name ''Terrassa'' derives from Latin ...
, a city with an important textile tradition. Managed by a consortium consisting of Terrassa Town Council and
Diputació de Barcelona
Barcelona (, ) is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The province is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea. Its area is .Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.
The documentation centre has an extensive library specialising in
textile
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not the ...
and
fashion
Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion i ...
, a photographic archive and a rich fabric collection. The institution provides companies with different services and, through its training centre and various agreements with universities and educational institutions, it promotes contact and the exchange of knowledge among professionals in the sector. The museum has the IMATEX image bank, through which companies and individuals can access the museum's collection, which basically consists of clothing and fabric samples, especially from the Mediterranean area, from the first centuries of the Early Modern period up to the present day. There are collections from China and India and a small collection of samples from the pre-Columbian Americas. The museum also has a fabric restoration service and a lecture hall.
The museum's extensive collection, with over 20,000 representative pieces of textile history from around the world, is presented in different temporary monographic exhibitions, lasting between ten and twelve months in the
Modernisme
''Modernisme'' (, Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan cultu ...
area on the first floor, and two to three years on the second floor.