Specializing in tools and machinery. Highlights include the clothing collection.
Activities: Historical Reenactments, Kids Workshop
Open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Closed on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
$$ (Moderately Priced); Reduced Rate for Children
The American Textile History Museum houses one of the largest collections of its kind in the world. Its collections contain thousands of books, trade catalogs, business records and personal papers, prints and photographs, a growing costume collection, millions of textiles samples, and hundreds of machines used in textile manufacture. The Museum is an unparalleled resource for the study of textile history in the United States. You will find a wealth of information about textile art, factory architecture, textile production, technological invention, labor history, industrial organization and the everyday life of mill towns.