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Created by the Vienne Textile Heritage Association, the Drapery Museum first opened in 1995. Since 199 it has become a municipal museum and is curated under the authority of the town of Vienne. It has three large exhibition areas and two event rooms.

The museum tour is organised according to two themes which highlight the socio-economic and technical aspects of the textile industry in Vienne: the various aspects of the life of workers, and the fabric manufacturing cycle. Today, the museum reminds us that the drapery industry provided the livelihood for Vienne's population for more than two and a half centuries. With reconstructed scenes, archive documents, photographs and videos, the museum recounts the story of the men who marked the Vienne textile industry. The waters of the Gère (a tributary of the Rhône) were an asset to the various activities of craftsmen, and have been used since ancient times, and even more so in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, they set the scene for steelworks, metalworking facilities, and textile plants.

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