The Museum is the home and sole organiser of the International Triennial of Tapestry, the largest and oldest textile exhibition in the world promoting the contemporary “fibre art”. Its extensive collection is related to textile manufacturing process – from materials, through textile techniques and technologies to textiles products representing various processing practices.
The Museum’s impressive size of 16 000 square meters, including 7 000 square meters of exhibition space offers a unique textile exploration and learning opportunities. The institution organised over 1 000 exhibitions with more being planned into the future. In addition, the Museum is also the sole organiser and exhibitor of big national Polish Textile events such as National Exhibition of the Polish Tapestry (since 2004), National Exhibition of the Polish Miniature Textiles (since 1998), national Exhibition of the Polish Cross-Stitch Embroidery (since 2000). Each of these events is attracting attention of thousands of visitors from around the world.
