Prato Textile Museum is a cultural institution whose mission is to promote the study, enhancement and exploitation of historic and contemporary textiles and all related artistic, industrial and technical aspects of interest.
The Museum offers its services not only to the citizens of the city of Prato, but also to tourists, students, scholars and members of the textile industry by whom it is seen as a place of reference for the development of creativity, know-how and personal skills. As far as its educational programmes are concerned, Prato Textile Museum rejects rigid specialization in favour of an integrated approach which enables a wide range of participants to exploit the Museum’s collections.

The high quality of the services and activities proposed by the Museum is ensured by ongoing comparison with other similar institutions at local, national and international level, as well as the constant updating of the tools and methodologies used.
Prato Textile Museum has extremely close ties with the local area, a territory whose cultural, social and economic identity has been linked to the production of textiles since the late middle ages. Indeed, Prato Textile Museum offers both a place in which to preserve the history of the local area and a dynamic and interactive cultural figure of reference for the modern-day textile industry.