Oaxaca Textile Museum

The Textile Museum of Oaxaca is located on the estate of the former monastery of Santo Domingo Soriano. Its building was built in the middle of the sixteenth century - in 1529. However, it gained its modern appearance a little later - after reconstruction in 2007. The Oaxaca Textile Museum has two floors and is built in Baroque style.

In the Oaxaca Textile Museum you can learn the history of the textile industry in Mexico. Here are collected exhibits, the time of origin of which is attributed to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among them - an ancient loom, weaving products, the property of the first Mexican merchants who were engaged in the sale of textiles.

Stored in the walls of the museum and looms, which were invented in the nineteenth century.

Museum guides will talk about the technology of dyeing various fabrics and reveal the secrets of their manufacture.

The Oaxaca Textile Museum hosts seminars and lectures for local students.