State Textile and Industrial Museum (TIM) Augsburg is dedicated to history of the fashion and clothing industry. The Museum is located in the former spinning mill of Augsburger Kammgarnspinnerei. Covering an area of 2500 square metres, it shows the beginnings of industry, but also today's developments such as carbon technology or intelligent clothing. The permanent exhibition focuses on the themes of man, machine, patterns and fashion. In addition, there are always special exhibitions. The tim has already been awarded several times. For example, it received an award from the European Museum Academy 2011 as the best European museum of technology and industry.
Permanent exhibition Part of the permanent exhibition is devoted to the lives of workers in the textile industry. Visitors learn how their lives have been changed by the new industrial age. But also the story of entrepreneurs or bankers who did business with the textiles is told.
In addition to the history of the people who made textiles, the production of fabrics and garments is also illuminated. The processes from the production of the raw material to the finished garment are explained and the visitors learn how the required machines have developed over time. Visitors can admire old looms and modern machines in operation in the historic shed hall. By the way: The textiles produced there can be purchased in the museum shop.
What would the textile industry be without the fashion world? Of course, tim also illuminates this aspect and shows impressive pieces of clothing from the past 200 years - from Biedermeier to Strenesse dresses.
The highlight of the permanent exhibition is the collection of 550 pattern books of the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK), which documents over 1.3 million fabric patterns from the 1780s to the 1990s. On interactive projection screens, visitors can also project patterns onto figures themselves and discover the colours and designs in 3D. You will find the collection in the center of the tree in the so-called middle shed.
There is also a children's path for the little guests of tim, where they can examine cotton and silk under the microscope or spin a thread themselves.