Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum

Current exhibitions

About the museum

The idea for the museum emerged in the 1990s, when Augsburg's textile industry fell into crisis and factories closed. A friends' association founded in 1996 salvaged machines from closed factories, and that same year the Stadtsparkasse (municipal savings bank) bought the pattern books of the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK), which would otherwise have gone abroad. In 2001 the Free State of Bavaria, the city of Augsburg, and the district of Swabia (Bezirk Schwaben) agreed to establish a joint museum.

The museum is housed in a production hall of the former Augsburger Kammgarn-Spinnerei (AKS, a worsted spinning mill) in the Textilviertel (textile district). It was converted between 2007 and 2010 to plans by Graz architect Klaus Kada at a cost of around €21 million, with the exhibition design by Atelier Brückner of Stuttgart. On January 20, 2010, the tim opened as the first state museum in Swabia; the city and district built it, and the Free State operates it.

The permanent exhibition is organized around four key concepts: people, machines, patterns, and fashion. It tells of the daily lives of the workers as well as of entrepreneurs and bankers, has historic and modern weaving and knitting machines producing in the museum factory, and showcases the NAK pattern archive, which is classified as a national cultural asset. A runway leads through some 200 years of fashion history, and a high-tech area presents the textiles of the future. Changing special and foyer exhibitions round out the program.

Highlights

• Museum factory with demonstrations of weaving and knitting machines from 1880 to today
• Pattern book collection of the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik (national cultural asset)
• Fashion runway from Biedermeier dresses to designer fashion
• Walk-on city map of Augsburg from 1874
• High-tech textiles such as carbon fiber and smart clothing
• Products woven in the museum, such as the "Schlossertuch," in the shop

Permanent exhibitions

• Mensch – Maschine – Muster – Mode – The permanent exhibition combines the social and technological history of Augsburg's textile industry with the NAK pattern archive, a working museum factory, and 200 years of fashion.

Founded

2010

Operated by

Freistaat Bayern

Director

Dr. Karl Borromäus Murr

Admission & discounts

No annual pass; members of Förder- und Freundeskreis tim e.V. get free admission, as do holders of the Bayerische Ehrenamtskarte (Bavarian volunteer card) and the annual pass for Bavaria's state museums.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking
• Service dogs welcome
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

All exhibition rooms are step-free or reachable by elevators (with tactile labels and voice announcements); wheelchair-accessible restroom in the basement. Loaner wheelchair at the ticket desk, portable stools in the foyer. Two accessible parking spaces on the museum grounds. Volunteer museum companions can be arranged for Augsburg groups of people with disabilities. People with pacemakers may not enter the machine hall.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Activity booklet, scavenger hunt or kids’ audio guide
• Baby changing facilities
• Kids’ birthday parties

Free activity booklet "Mit Fussel durch das tim" (With Fuzzy Through the tim) with puzzles at 8 stations, scavenger hunt across the factory grounds (app or booklet), and children's audio guide "Zeitreise" (Time Travel) for smartphones. Birthday parties for ages 6 and up (2.5 hrs, fabric printing or photo transfer). Baby changing room in the basement. Free admission up to age 18.

Getting there & parking

Amenities & dining

• Restaurant
• Museum shop
• Coat check
• Lockers
• Wi-Fi

Museum restaurant nunó (Tue–Sun 10:00–17:00, Sunday breakfast buffet). Museum shop of the friends' association with textiles woven at the tim. Free coat check and lockers in the basement (bags and jackets are not allowed in the exhibition), BayernWLAN.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Private parties
• Corporate events
• Weddings / ceremonies

Up to 800 guests.

Hall on the upper floor (1,100 m², up to 800 people), foyer, central shed (Mittelshed), multivision room and workshop room, and the nunó restaurant (including for weddings and birthdays); can be combined with guided tours.

Plan your visit