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Thematic route

From the White Factory to Wooden Łódź

A 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.

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  • Starts atWhite Factory of Ludwik Geyer
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About the route

The route begins at the White Factory of Ludwik Geyer. It then leads through the Machines in Motion Hall and City - Fashion - Machine, from working looms to the history of the city and its clothing. New Polish Fashion, a temporary exhibition running until 3 May 2027, completes this part of the visit.

The Łódź City Culture Park section starts at the tram waiting room from Zgierz. Next, Łódź Microhistories explores residents' daily lives, while The Last Summer follows a fictional family's holiday in 1939. The walk ends at the wooden church from Nowosolna. Factory, clothes, homes and transport come together in a history of work and life beyond the mill.

Stops along the way (8)
  1. Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi1RoomWhite 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.Quiz
  2. Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi2RoomMachines 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.Quiz
  3. Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi3RoomCity - 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.Quiz
  4. Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi4RoomNew 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.Quiz
  5. Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi5RoomTram Waiting Room from ZgierzA former passenger building from the Zgierz tram terminus, dismantled, stored at a depot and rebuilt as a transport heritage exhibit.Quiz
  6. Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi6RoomŁódź 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.Quiz
  7. Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi7RoomThe 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.Quiz
  8. Ilustracja Centralnego Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi8RoomChurch 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.Quiz
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Live Story - propozycja redakcyjna
Reference
TRA-LOD-CMW-001
  • thematic route
  • textile industry
  • fashion
  • open-air museum
  • Łódź