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American Textile History Museum
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American Textile History Museum America's story throung the art, science, and history of its textiles.
A guided tour of the Museum's core exhibition Textiles in America provides a special opportunity to experience the story of textiles. Knowledgeable guides will leas you through the evolution of cloth-making, from colonial home-spun to high tech manufacturing. As they operate vintage machinery, guides demonstrate the production process.
Groups of any number may be accommodated and tours can be tailored to your group's special area of interest. For groups interested in touring the exhibit at their own pace, self guided options are available. Group tour packages are available including weekday lunch or weekend brunch at the Gazebo Cafe.
Rates include self-guided tours of special exhibitions.
Group rates of 15 people or more start at $4.00 per person, Guided tours rates are $6.00, this is payable upon arrival. Please inquire about lunch package rates.
Museum History:
Caroline Stevens Rogers, a member of a venerable textile industry family and a handweaver and dyer in her own right, founded the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1960. Today, the Museum has expanded its mission, changed its name, and since 1997 has occupied the historic 150,000 square foot Kitson Manufacturing Company building adjacent to the Lowell National Historical Park.
As the Museum looks forward to the future under the leadership of Michael J. Smith, director since 2000, it can justly say that it has come a long way from its beginnings in the collection of spinning wheels and other preindustrial tools that Caroline Stevens Rogers set out to preserve toward being an integral and dynamic presence for the general public, for scholars and for the textile industry.
Admissions:
$8 for adults (17 and over); $6 for seniors, children and college students with ID; free for Museum Members and children under 6. Special discounts for groups. No admission fee to dine at the Gazebo Cafe. Special programs and exhibitions may have additional fees.
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