Museum für textile Kunst, Textile museum in Kirchrode district, Hanover, Germany.
The Museum für textile Kunst is a collection of fabrics and woven materials from various origins and periods, housed in a former World War II bunker. The thick walls of the structure create a stable climate that supports textile conservation and offers visitors a particularly protected space for exploration.
The bunker was built in the final stages of World War II for the German Air Force and remained unused for decades before its conversion to a museum in 2007. This transformation turned a site of wartime history into a space dedicated to preserving textile art.
The collection features fabrics from the Ottoman Empire, traditional Indian wedding saris, and Japanese kimonos from different periods. Visitors can explore European textiles from multiple centuries and woven materials from around the world while examining their craftsmanship.
The museum is located in the Kirchrode area and offers guided tours through its collections that last approximately one hour. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes since the exhibition is arranged across multiple levels.
The collection also includes rare fabrics woven from tree bark and technical textiles designed for Arctic expeditions to Greenland. Additionally, silk tapestries from Saint Petersburg workshops are on display, showing how advanced European craftsmanship techniques were.
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