Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi

Łódź, łódzkie

Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi

A textile museum housed in Ludwik Geyer’s historic White Factory – one of the largest institutions of its kind in Europe, featuring working historic looms and the Łódź City Culture Park.

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Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi

The Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź occupies the White Factory - a neoclassical industrial complex whose oldest buildings were constructed on the initiative of Ludwik Geyer (1805-1869), one of the pioneers of Łódź’s textile industry. It was here that the city’s first mechanised cotton spinning mill and weaving mill were established, and today the complex houses one of the largest museums in Europe devoted to textiles.

The collections include textile machinery and tools, industrial and historic fabrics, one of the world’s largest collections of contemporary textile art, and clothing documenting fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1972, the museum launched the Textile Triennial, which became an international event in 1975, while the main building houses the Machinery in Motion Hall, where visitors can see demonstrations of historic looms in operation.

An integral part of the museum is the Łódź City Culture Park - a group of eight historic structures from Łódź and its surroundings, including a reconstructed tram shelter, including the oldest of them, the wooden Church of St Andrew Bobola from Nowosolna. In 2024, the museum together with the park won the Cuda Polski poll organised by National Geographic Traveler for the Łódź Voivodeship.

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Opening hours

Opening hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
12:00–17:00
Thursday
12:00–19:00
Friday
12:00–19:00
Saturday
11:00–18:00
Sunday
11:00–17:00

The museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. On Wednesdays admission to the permanent exhibitions is free (a free ticket must be collected at the box office). On the last Thursday of the month, from 16:00 to 19:00, quiet hours apply for visitors sensitive to sensory stimuli. Machinery demonstrations start hourly, from 13:00 until one hour before closing.

Tickets

Exhibition tickets

Ticket for all exhibitions - standard
PLN 55.00
Ticket for all exhibitions - reduced
PLN 39.00
Ticket for one permanent exhibition - standard
PLN 22.00
Ticket for one permanent exhibition - reduced
PLN 15.00
Ticket for the temporary exhibition New Polish Fashion - standard
PLN 29.00
Ticket for the temporary exhibition New Polish Fashion - reduced
PLN 19.00
Combined ticket with the Museum of the City of Łódź - standard
PLN 74.00
Combined ticket with the Museum of the City of Łódź - reduced
PLN 50.00
Ticket for all exhibitions for visitors with disabilities
PLN 5.00
Wednesdays - entry to the permanent exhibitions
free

An audio guide costs PLN 5 per exhibition. Guided-tour tickets cost PLN 30 standard or PLN 20 reduced in Polish, and PLN 38 or PLN 28 in English. A ticket to any exhibition also includes the Boiler Room and Machines in Motion Hall. New Polish Fashion runs until 3 May 2027. Ticket sales end 30 minutes before the museum closes.

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Routes (1)
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziThematic routeFrom the White Factory to Wooden ŁódźA route linking the museum's historic building, its flagship exhibitions on industry and fashion, and the open-air Łódź City Culture Park into one story about two faces of old Łódź.Start the walk
Exhibitions (1)
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziPermanent exhibition · since 2008Łódź City Culture ParkWooden houses, a villa, a church and a reconstructed tram shelter explore everyday life in historic Łódź.
Exhibits and points (8)
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziCity - Fashion - MachineA multi-floor permanent exhibition linking the history of industry, urban life and fashion in Łódź - from textile machines to the fashion of Piotrkowska Street.
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziThe Last SummerAn interactive exhibition in a relocated villa from Ruda Pabianicka, where visitors can touch the exhibits and use them just as a fictional Łódź family did in the summer of 1939.
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziMachines in Motion HallA reconstruction of a 19th-century weaving mill with eight historic looms and regular live machine demonstrations, bringing visitors close to the work of a weaver at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziWhite Factory of Ludwik GeyerA four-wing factory complex built by Ludwik Geyer in the 19th century, where the first mechanised cotton spinning mill and weaving works in Łódź was founded - today the seat of the Central Museum of Textiles.
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziŁódź Microhistories. Human MicrohistoriesA permanent exhibition in five historic houses of the Łódź City Culture Park, showing the lives of residents of multicultural, textile-industry Łódź against the background of 19th- and 20th-century history.
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziNew Polish Fashion. A Chronicle of Deep EmotionsAn exhibition of 21st-century Polish fashion, featuring work by more than 50 designers and exploring memory, identity and emotions.
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziChurch of St Andrew Bobola from NowosolnaThe oldest structure in the Łódź City Culture Park - a wooden church built from 1846, moved here from Nowosolna together with the open-air museum's other historic buildings.
  • Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w ŁodziTram Waiting Room from ZgierzA former passenger building from the Zgierz tram terminus, dismantled, stored at a depot and rebuilt as a transport heritage exhibit.
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ul. Piotrkowska 282
93-034 Łódź
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Accessibility

The park's houses have high thresholds and access ramps. Cobbled courtyards make wheelchair access difficult. The church is not wheelchair accessible: its entrance has steps and there is no lift. The villa has a step-free rear entrance, a lift and accessible toilets. A lift also serves City - Fashion - Machine. Quiet hours run on the last Thursday of each month, 16:00-19:00. Ventilation conditions in City - Fashion - Machine, especially on the second floor, may cause difficulties for visitors with respiratory conditions.

  • Step-free entranceYes
  • ElevatorYes
  • Accessible toiletYes
  • Child-friendly materialsYes
  • Stairs presentYes
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