The Nantong Textile Museum
Located at Nantong City of Jiangsu Province, the museum is the first themed museum of textile in China.
Nantong, the base of the modern national industry of cotton spinning and weaving and one of the birthplaces of technical education of textile industry, was a well-known textile center a hundred years ago. The museum was completed and opened to the public in October 1985. With a total area of 18,000 square meters, it consists of two parts inclusive of the main building and the auxiliary building. The main building consists of six exhibition halls, a storeroom for exhibits and offices. In the auxiliary building, models are used to restore the historical features of cotton planting, production of hand-woven cloth, commercial transactions and modern textile workshops at the end of the Ming dynasty (1644-1911) and the beginning of the Republic of China.
Most of the historical relics and historical articles exhibited in the museum are from the local. The pottery spinning wheel, the stock shares, account books, trade marks and products of the early stage of Dasheng Textile Mill are very precious articles in the museum. You can learn a lot about the textile industry of China in the museum.
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