The idea of a Decorative Arts and textile museum goes as far back as the first half of the nineteenth century. The chamber of Commerce finalised this project in 1856 and created a french Museum about the textile industry. Natalis Rondot was sent on several missions to study the Institutions newly created by the Sciences and Arts department in England and mainly the organisation of Industry museums . The idea to link decorative Arts and Industry in a french museum was coming from England where the first Universal Exhibition had taken place in 1851 followed by the creation of the South Kensington Museum , later named : Victoria and Albert Museum.
N. Rondot handed his report in 1858 and work to install the new french museum began at once , on the second floor of the Palais de la Bourse. The “ Decorative Arts and Industry Museum ” of France was opened to the public in 1864. In 180O, Edouard Aynard, then President of the Chamber of Commerce enriched and transformed it till it became an incomparable institution in the domain of textile museum and took the name of “Musée Historique des Tissus”
In 1939, the collections were moved to safety. When they came back in 1945, the Chamber of Commerce decided to house them in one of the finest eighteenth century stately house, built in 1730 for Claude Bertaud, a road inspector. The Lyon Textile Museum was inaugurated in 1950.
The first textiles and documents had been collected long before the famous french museum was created.
Since the end of the second world war, the decorative arts museum has been further enriched through gifts, bequests and purchases. Arsène-Henry (1962), Sonia Delaunay (1964 and 1974), Pozzi (1971), Coudurier, Fructus and Descher (1978), Bianchini-Férier (1999).The Industry conciliatory Board (1974) and the School of weaving (1986), gave textiles on loan.
The Textile Museum , in the hôtel de Villeroy, also houses the “Centre International d’Etudes des Textiles Anciens” (CIETA), the “Textile Centre’ for Lyons and the region, and the Fashion University association. With a collection of three to four millions documents, the Textile Museum in Lyon , France, 34 rue de la Charité, is indisputably of unvaluable interest to the textile world.
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