Textile Arts Museum

The Textile Arts Museum (French Musée des Tissus) is a museum in the city of Lyon, France. Located in two 18th century hôtels particuliers of Lyon's 2nd arrondissement, the institution consists in two distinct collections: the textiles collection and the decorative arts collection.[1]

Musée des Tissus
Entrance of the Musée des Tissus

Established	1864
Location	34 rue de la Charité 69002 Lyon, France
Coordinates	45.766846°N 4.83363°E / 45.766846; 4.83363
Type	Art museum, Textile museum
Visitors	131 800 (2009)
Website	www.museedestissus.fr

Founded in 1864, the musée des Tissus houses one of the largest international collection of textiles, the holdings amounting to 2,500,000 units. The collection spans a 4,000 year period, from Antiquity to the present, and covers a wide range of techniques and all the geographical areas of the world. The history of Lyon's silk industry is particularly well represented in the collection.

The decorative arts collection holds works in many different fields: furniture, majolica, drawings, jewelry, painting, sculpture etc.

External links

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Museum homepage

References

"A Lyon, le Musée des tissus se déchire". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2017-06-09. Retrieved 2023-05-22.

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Asia	Azerbaijan Carpet Museum Bhutan Textile Museum Bsous Silk Museum Calico Museum of Textiles Carpet Museum of Iran Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum Kurdish Textile Museum Lok Virsa Museum Islamabad, Pakistan National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum National Textile Museum Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles Sanskriti Textile Museum Textile Museum (Jakarta) Yokohama Silk Museum
Related topics	Textile museum Design museum

2nd arrondissement of Lyon
Quarters	Les Cordeliers Bellecour Les Célestins La Confluence Ainay Perrache Sainte-Blandine
Streets	Cours Charlemagne Passage de l'Argue Rue Édouard-Herriot Rue Émile-Zola Rue de Brest Rue de la Bourse Rue de la Poulaillerie Rue de la République Rue des Archers Rue des Marronniers Rue Mercière Rue Victor-Hugo
Squares	Place Ampère Place Antonin-Poncet Place Bellecour Place Carnot Place de la République Place des Célestins Place des Jacobins
Places of worship	Basilique Saint-Martin d'Ainay Chapelle de la Trinité Église Saint-Bonaventure Église Saint-Nizier Grande synagogue de Lyon
Other monuments	Brasserie Georges Catholic University of Lyon Collège-lycée Ampère Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon Hôtel Terminus La Sucrière Musée de l'Imprimerie Musée des Confluences Palais de la Bourse Patinoire Charlemagne Prison Saint-Paul Théâtre des Célestins
Transport	Gare de Lyon-Perrache Lyon Metro Line A Lyon Metro Line D Vélo'v

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