The American Textile History Museum tells America's story through the art, history and science of our textiles. It is the nation's largest and most comprehensive textile museum, and is located in the Kitson factory, built in 1860 to manufacture textile machinery.
The Museum is home to the most significant integrated textile history collection in North America, with an extraordinary library and one of the world's largest and most important publicly held collections of tools, spinning wheels and hand looms.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has designated its industrial machinery as a National Historic Engineering Heritage Collection. Its collections of books and documents, tools and textile machinery, fabric samples, textiles, and costumes come to life in the Textiles in America core exhibition, special exhibitions, and educational programs.
The Museum was founded in North Andover, MA in 1960 by Caroline Stevens Rogers, a hand-weaver and collector, and has been accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1973. Growing from a small regional facility to a nationally recognized cultural institution, the Museum moved to historic Lowell in 1997 to better serve the public.
The Museum continues its annual fundraising efforts to support the Museum's ongoing operations, collections, development of new exhibitions, hands-on learning in the Textile Learning Center (TLC) and educational programs which serve over 8,500 area grade school students.
ATHM is home to the most significant textile history collection in North America, with an extraordinary library and one of the world's largest and most important publicly held collections of tools, spinning wheels and hand looms.
American Textile History Museum
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