Textilmúzeum, Textile industry museum in Budapest District III, Hungary
The Goldberger Textile Industry Collection occupies two 18th-century houses at Lajos utca 136–138 in Óbuda, bought in 1784 by textile merchant Ferenc Goldberger for his blue-dyeing works. The street wings are single-storey: No. 136 has a romantic facade with two semicircular dormers, No. 138 a baroque facade with a stone-framed gate, now the main entrance, flanked by two plaques and topped by three fish-eye dormers. Exhibits fill the ground-floor rooms.
The idea of a textile industry museum arose in the 1960s and was voiced in 1968 by the Textile Technical and Scientific Association. The museum opened in 1986 in a former weaving mill in Angyalföld, where it operated until 1992. Since 2013 the collection has been housed in the Óbuda Museum as the Goldberger Textile Industry Collection, in 18th-century buildings bought in 1784 by textile merchant Ferenc Goldberger.
The collection reflects how textile making shaped Hungarian craftsmanship and local industry, showing traditional methods alongside the shift to factory production. You can see how different techniques were valued and practiced in daily work.
The collection occupies the ground-floor rooms of two 18th-century houses at Lajos utca 136–138 in Óbuda; the main entrance is the stone-framed gate of No. 138, flanked by two memorial plaques. Exhibits are on this level, so no stairs are involved. Look for the three fish-eye dormer windows on the roof of No. 138.
The museum preserves original textile machinery that shows how production technology changed over centuries. These working machines let visitors understand how historical fabric making actually functioned.
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