The Department possesses the collection of textile tools, machines and appliances linked with the past decades of the textile production in the district of d . Majority of objects illustrates cotton processing techniques in the 19th and 20th century. There are various types of hand and machine weaving looms, spinning-wheels, spinning machines, reeling machines and spoolers. The Department is in possession of various types of knitting machines, a numerous collection of sewing machines and rare appliances for textile metrology. The Department collects items and is engaged in scientific work concerning the history of the development of textile industry in Poland - both in guilds and mills.
Special attention is paid to the development of textiles in the d Industrial Region.
The collection is varied. Particularly interesting is the biggest in Poland collection of shares and obligations of the Polish textile companies, guild and factory flags, medals, workers' photographs and company prints. The Department is in possession of the Textile Mill Files. Head of the Department of the History of Textiles Production is curator Piotr Jaworski . The Department works together with other departments in the museum, with other museums, galleries, artists as well as private persons in Poland and abroad to plan and organise various types of exhibitions in the building of the museum and in other institutions of culture in Poland and abroad.