Can Marfà Knitwear Museum

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The Can Marfà Knitwear Museum (Catalan: Can Marfà. Museu del Gènere de Punt), located in Mataró, Catalonia (Spain). Part of the Mataró Museum it is devoted to the knitting and hosiery industry. It is situated in one of the three-storey warehouses of the former Marfà factory in Mataró, the most important Knitted fabric factory in Spain before 1936. The facility has 1,800 m2 distributed over three floors.

Ground floor: The temporary exhibition area: The ground floor houses the history of textile industry, technology, design and fashion. It is the area of temporary exhibitions.

First floor: Mataró, the capital of knitwear: The permanent exhibition presents more than one hundred industrial objects explaining the knitwear manufacturing process in Catalonia from the 18th century to present day: Machinery, tools, clothing, advertising and documents, aiming to highlight one of the most important collections of its kind in Europe.

Thematic areas: The exhibition is arranged in seven thematic areas:

Audiovisual introduction: Overview of the characteristics of the knitwear industry in Mataró. From Fiber to Mesh: The manufacturing process of knitwear: Spinning, weaving, design,...