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Textiles

The Old Town's collection of interiors is spread out over the entire museum. The collections tell the story of the place of textiles in interior decorating. You can find out when curtains first showed up in the houses and when the cushion came into the living room.

A wadded box
During the 19th century a tendency to hide things behind textiles arose. The towel had to be hidden behind nicely embroidered towels and the stove was hidden behind an embroidered screen. The private homes of the middle classes became more and more covered by textiles, produced by diligent and careful female hands. In the 1890s, the homes were reminiscent of a box lined with plush and tassels, woollen carpets and fine embroidered table mats. The functionalism of the 1920s rebelled against this.

The cavalcade of homes
In the Mayor's House the exhibitions take you on a time travel through 250 years of interior decorating. In five of the rooms you can also see clothes from the different time periods. Here you can see how furniture, interior decorating and clothes act together to form what we today would call life style.

The Clothing Exhibition
The Old Town's collection of clothing is extensive. At the moment the museum is working on a new exhibition of clothing, where 300 square metres of exhibition space will hold a general exhibition. The textile house will have direct access from the Mintmaster's mansion from Copenhagen.