Barcelona - Textile and Clothing Museum Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària

Opposite the Museu Picasso stands a 13th C. palace, now the home of the Museu Tèxtil i d'Indumentària. It possesses items from the Fourth C. A.D. onwards, as well as from regions inhabited by the Coptics (Egyptians), Moors and from the Christian West.

The ticket office is in the pretty Renaissance inner courtyard, where there is a small display of dolls' clothes and fashion jewelry.

The exhibition rooms begin on the first floor, and by following the signs the exhibits will be seen in chronological order. They include finery and sophisticated clothing from the 16th-18th C. as well as many accessories (shoes, handbags, capes); on the walls hang large tapestries. In Room 11 will be found an extensive group of sumptuous 18th C. garments and a display cabinet with shoes; in Room 12 there are similar items from the Empire and Biedermeier periods. Going up one set of stairs brings the visitor to some temporary exhibitions covering specialized subjects, as well as a weaving-loom and a model of same.