Museum of Textile Industry in Sliven

The Museum of Textile Industry is a branch of the National Polytechnic Museum. Thematically, the museum is dedicated entirely to the production of textiles from the ancient past until the present day and as such it is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria.
The exhibition takes up eight halls and follows the birth, development, and achievements of textile techniques, technologies and equipment. The tour around the museum starts at the second floor and continues to the first where the big machines and equipment included in the demonstration part of the lecture are situated. The hand production and the industrial manufacturing of textiles are shown in chronological order form the early Neolithic Age (7th Millennium BC) until the end of the 19th century and from the end of the 19th century until the 1970s.