Textilmuseum St. Gallen

The Palazzo Rosso in St.Gallen’s Old Town has been the home of the Textile Museum and the Textile Library ever since 1886. Thousands of pattern books, designs, fashion photographs, magnificent textiles, flamboyant garments, needlework utensils and the demonstration of a hand embroidery machine take visitors into a world of imagination, creativity and technological feats.
The Museum is famous for its exquisite collections of Eastern Swiss embroideries, Egyptian textiles from late antiquity, European lace, embroideries and fabrics from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Textile Library provides an insight into thousands of patterns created by textile designers in the last 170 years.

This museum greets you in the following languages: D/F/I/E
The inscriptions in the exhibitions are mostly in German and English. In addition, the hall texts are available in French and Italian.
Opening 1886

Current exhibitions

Fabrikanten & Manipulanten

29.04.2017 - 31.12.2020

the exhibition entitled Fabrikanten & Manipulanten is devoted to the history of Eastern Switzerland’s textile industry and its protagonists. The show is part of iigfädlet – Ostschweizer Textilgeschichte, a project run jointly by eight museums in the region.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/I/E
Die Ausstellungstexte sind in Deutsch und Englisch abgefasst. Französische und italienische Übersetzungen liegen vor.

Next exhibition(s)

7th European Quilt-Triennial

14.02.2020 - 19.04.2020

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The European Quilt Triennial was held for the seventh time in 2018. From more than 160 submissions, the international jury selected 41 works that reveal a broad spectrum of techniques, concepts and motifs and reflect the artists’ engagement with questions of time, world history or their own biographies.


The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/E
Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/F/E