2022/01/05
Located at the beautiful campus of Donghua University on Yan’an Road, the Shanghai Museum of Textile and Costume is the only museum dedicated to the spread of historical culture and technological knowledge about China’s textiles and costumes. With an area of more than 6,700 square meters, the theme of the exhibits in the museum is the development history of China’s textiles and costumes. It consists of four branch pavilions which are the pavilion of science and technology, the pavilion of ancient history, the pavilion of contemporary history and the pavilion of ethnic minorities.
Demonstrating the technology and culture in the field of modern textiles and costumes with the combination of dynamic and static elements, the pavilion of science and technology is located on the first floor, where a myriad of interactions including the computer embroidery, the knitting and the machine weaving, and the ink-jet printing are available. Visitors may have a better understanding of textiles and costumes through their onsite experience of the procedures of manufacture and design.
On the second floor is located the pavilion of ancient history where the pictures and real items of the textiles and costumes of periods ranging from the Qin and Han dynasties to Ming and Qing times. It exhibits China’s four famous brocades in rich colors and exquisite workmanship. They are Shu brocade of the Han and Tang dynasties, Song brocade of the Song dynasty, Zhuang brocade and the Yun brocade in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
On the third floor are located the pavilion of contemporary history and the pavilion of ethnic minorities, which showcase the textile techniques and costume styles of ethnic minorities in the forms including real items, scenes, pictures and multi-media.