Linen Museum in Żyrardów, History museum in Żyrardów, Poland

The Linen Museum occupies the former printing hall of the Żyrardów works, where linen yarn preparation, Jacquard looms, and fabric finishing by smoothing, boiling, and washing are shown. Its working machinery can be started during a visit, and the collection includes the longest flat screen-printing machine in Poland.

The museum occupies a former printing hall of the Żyrardów linen works, the plant founded by Filip de Girard that grew into one of the largest linen production centres in the Russian Empire. The works ran until 1999, when the machinery was kept in place and the collection assembled.

The museum is named after Filip de Girard, the French engineer whose spinning machine design underpinned the Żyrardów works. Its collection centres on the screen-printing templates and flatbed printing machine once used in the plant's own print shop, and the machinery can be set running during a visit.

The museum occupies the former printing hall of the Żyrardów works, where the machines stand in the original industrial rooms. The machinery is operational and can be started during a visit, so ask staff to run a loom or the flatbed screen printer. The mini zoo next to the museum is a separate attraction on the same site.

The museum preserves one of the world's largest collections of industrial printing templates used for screen printing on textiles, saved since the factory closed in 1999. These tools reveal an often-overlooked artistic side to linen production that goes beyond simple machinery.