Prato Textile Museum

The Prato Textile Museum Foundation was founded in November 2003 as a partnership between the city, the bands and the craft unions.

Changes in lifestyle and the development of new technologies made Prato textile companies abandon their traditional carded wool businesses and investigate new markets.

In March 1863, it was bought by Vincenzo Campolmi, Luigi Cecconi and David Alphandery, established again as a water-powered textile factory.

By the end of the 19th century, Campolmi textile mill had developed into a two-storey rectangular building built around a courtyard with a reservoir (lodge) and a 40-metre brick chimney in the centre.

The total cost of the renovation for the complex, including the museum and library was approximately 18 million euros.

Courtyard with mill lodge and chimney