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

Iigfädlet. 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.

Knie Circus Fashion. One hundred years of costumes in the Textile Museum

07.03.2019 - 19.01.2020

Captivating circus! Extraordinary acrobatics, awe-inspiring animal acts and clowns larking about at the edge of the ring are turned into a magical feast for the senses through imaginative and inventive costumes. The exhibition «Circus Knie Fashion» contains spectacular costumes from the beginning of the last century to today. Illustrating a hundred years of circus history, the Knie family’s magnificent garments are practical workwear at the same time as being highly fashionable.

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

Vision Summer 2020

13.05.2019 - 13.10.2019

The current collections of the Swiss textile manufacturers, which can be seen and felt in the lounge of the Textile Museum St.Gallen, look fresh in summer. Flower motifs in bright colours, shimmering structures, sequins that break the incident light, complemented by delicate pastels and delicate patterns: this is how the Swiss textile manufacturers interpret the summer of 2020: colourful and multi-faceted.

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The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/I/E