These days the Textile Museum manages an overall collection<\/a> with around 56,000 objects. It hosts two to three special exhibitions<\/a> every year, which complement thematically the permanent exhibition on the history of textiles in Eastern Switzerland. A highly varied event programme, museum-related educational activities<\/a>, as well as an attractive shop<\/a> round off the museum\u2019s offerings, which find great favour with visitors both from Switzerland and abroad.<\/p>\n Inspired by the world fairs \u2013 technical and handicraft shows that arouse the enthusiasm of a large public from the mid-19th<\/sup> century onwards \u2013 the Kaufm\u00e4nnische Direktorium<\/em> sets up the first sample collections for the region\u2019s textile industry in 1863. In 1878 the \u2018Industry and Trade Museum St. Gallen\u2019 is founded. The museum opens in 1886 on the former site of the Seidenhof on Vadianstrasse in a palatial historicist building. On account of its red brick fa\u00e7ade, the building, whose design is by Zurich architect Gustav Gull, is called the \u2018Palazzo Rosso\u2019, too. Besides the collections of the Kaufm\u00e4nnische Direktorium<\/em>, it houses the Textile Library, the Drawing School, and, from 1890, the Embroidery School.<\/p>\n From 1900 onwards, temporary exhibitions increasingly take place, whereby the museum can fall back on important private collections and company archives that have come to the institutions throughout the decades. They supplement the original sample collections with valuable historical textiles, which once served the textile industrialists as a template for their own production and which today count among the museum collection\u2019s highlights.<\/p>\n \nAs the years go by, the collection continues to grow. There is an increasing need for space and so the museum is extended upwards in 1956, which represents a massive alteration to the building\u2019s appearance, as does the grey fa\u00e7ade painted in 1962. In 1982 the museum is renamed, from the \u2018Industry and Trade Museum\u2019 to the \u2018Textile Museum\u2019 and the \u2018Textile Library\u2019. The latter is altered and extended in 1987\/88. In 1991 the Textile Museum and the library are transferred to the \u2018Stiftung IHK\u2019. Since 2012 the Textile Museum St. Gallen has been run by the \u2018Verein Textilmuseum<\/a>\u2019, which works closely with the \u2018Stiftung Textilmuseum<\/a>\u2019, into which the \u2018Stiftung IHK\u2019 was merged in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Textile Museum These days the Textile Museum manages an overall collection with around 56,000 objects. It hosts two to three special exhibitions every year, which complement thematically the permanent exhibition on the history of textiles in Eastern Switzerland. A highly varied event programme, museum-related educational activities, as well as an attractive shop round off the museum\u2019s offerings, which find great favour with visitors both from Switzerland and abroad. Beginnings in the 19th century Inspired by the world fairs \u2013 technical and handicraft shows that arouse the enthusiasm of a large public from the mid-19th century onwards \u2013 the Kaufm\u00e4nnische Direktorium […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12209,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3708","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16840,"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3708\/revisions\/16840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textilmuseum.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Beginnings in the 19th<\/sup> century<\/h2>\n
From the sample collection to the modern museum<\/h2>\n