National Museum of Textile Industry
The National Museum of the Textile Industry in town of Sliven is a subsidiary of the National Polytechnic Museum - Sofia. It was created in 1984 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of industrial development in Bulgaria.
The museum is housed in its own building (the first textile school in Bulgaria) with an area of 550 m2. It has over 3,000 exhibits arranged in three main sections: manual textile production, textile crafts, textile machines. There are 18 levels where demonstrations are carried out. Here visitors can trace the history of the development of this industry - the oldest tools used to obtain the textile industry - a vertical loom (VII c. BC. ), Looms with a comb and bark, came of type "Flying shuttle" (the last technological step in the transition from manual to machine textile production), mechanical looms and inventions from our days.
Since 1988 the Museum of the textile industry in Sliven is a member of the European Textile Network based in Hanover, Germany (and is the first Bulgarian museum included there).
Address of the National Museum of Textile Industry: 2, "Stoil Voyvoda", Sliven 8800
