Museum of Technology and Textile Industry

The Museum of Technology and Textile Industry displays machines and tools for wool processing, firefighting gear, printing equipment, and metalwork, spread across four separate rooms. Each room comes from a different section of the former factory and shows various stages of cloth manufacturing.

The former Büttner cloth factory was one of the largest textile producers in Bielsko before it became a museum in 1979. Converting the factory to a museum protected the buildings and their industrial story from disappearing.

The collection shows how textile workers lived with these machines and what skills the job demanded of them. You can understand how deeply cloth manufacturing shaped the community and daily routines of this city.

The four rooms are arranged in the original factory layout, so you should plan to move from one to the next as you explore each section. Good walking shoes help when you move through the different areas of the old factory building.

A separate section focuses on the history of how Bielsko-Biała supplied water to its residents, with technical drawings and historical records from that time. This collection shows the engineering solutions that made water available to the growing city.

Location: Bielsko-Biała

Inception: 1979

Part of: Industrial Monuments Route

Address: Żwirki i Wigury 8, 43-300 Bielsko-Biała

Website: https://muzeum.bielsko.pl/pl/historia-muzeum-stara-fabryka

GPS coordinates: 49.82000,19.04472

Latest update: December 14, 2025 12:26