Can Marfà Knitwear Museum
Textile museum in Barcelona, Spain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Textile museum in Barcelona, Spain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Can Marfà Knitwear Museum (Catalan: Can Marfà. Museu del Gènere de Punt), located in Mataró (Spain). Part of the Mataró Museum it is devoted to the knitting and hosiery industry. It is situated in one of the three-storey warehouses of the former Marfà factory in Mataró, the most important Knitted fabric factory in Spain before 1936.[1]
Can Marfà. Museu del Gènere de Punt | |
Established | February 2015 |
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Location | Passatge de Can Marfà 1, Mataró, Barcelona, Spain |
Type | Textile museum |
The facility has 1,800 m2 distributed over three floors.
The ground floor houses the history of textile industry, technology, design and fashion. It is the area of temporary exhibitions.[2]
The permanent exhibition presents more than one hundred industrial objects explaining the knitwear manufacturing process in Catalonia from the 18th century to present day: Machinery, tools, clothing, advertising and documents, aiming to highlight one of the most important collections of its kind in Europe.[3]
The exhibition is arranged in seven thematic areas:
The second floor houses documentation, preservation and research areas and displays a selection of clothing items from the 1960s to the 1980s.[4]
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