Since 1990, the CDMT has organized temporary exhibitions with the aim of bringing the textile world closer to the public at large. These displays have put the spotlight on different parts of the vast heritage we preserve and have enabled us to study and restore many beautiful pieces.
Each exhibition has helped us to learn more about textile culture and has allowed us to build up a loyal following. Most of the exhibitions have been produced by the centre itself or in conjunction with other Catalan museums, and we have also staged exhibitions from further afield.
Current exhibitions
“One museum, thousand of threads”
Date: from November 28, 2021
Venue: first floor, Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Additional information: (Spanish)
Vidas de Alta Costura
Date: From April 30, 2023 to January 30
Nov 2024
Venue: second floor, Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Additional information: (Spanish)
“Hilo” by Rocío Bueno
Date: November 9 to December 10, 2023
Venue: “Espai Zero”, Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Next exhibitions
Previous exhibitions
“¿Qué me pongo?” by María Uribe
Date: from September 17 to November 5, 2023
Venue: "Espai Zero", Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
“Todo -nada- al mismo tiempo” by Mariadela Araujo
Date: from May 7 to July 23, 2023
Venue: "Espai Zero", Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
“Moguda Rock Terrassa 80's”
Date: from March 19 to April 16, 2023
Venue: second floor, Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Additional information: information poster
“El jardí de la Frida” (Fridas Hage)
Date: from January 22 to April 2, 2023
Venue: "Espai Zero" Museu Tèxtil (Terrassa)
“Pesebre napolitano del siglo XXI”
Created by Josep Massagué (Fourth edition )
Date: from December 18, 2022 to January 15, 2023
Venue: sala "Espai Zero"
“Forcano Moda”
Date: from October 16 to December 31, 2022
Venue: second floor, Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Additional information: press release
“Niños vs Moda” by Yolanda Domínguez
Date: from November 11 to December 11, 2022
Venue: "Espai Zero", Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Additional information: press release (Spanish)
“A single thread” by Núria Benet
Date: from 18 September to 6 November 2022
Venue: "Espai Zero", Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Additional information: press release (Spanish)
“Mieses”
Date: from May 8 to July 24, 2022
Venue: "Espai Zero", Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Additional information: press release (Spanish)
“Moda, art i feminitat”, by Carmen Valverde and Lola Raya
Date: from May 8 to June 30, 2022
Venue: second floor, Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
Additional information: press release (Spanish)
“Cassandra”
Date: from February 20 to April 12, 2022
Venue: sala "Espai Zero"
Organized by: Kima Guitart
Additional information: press release (Spanish)
“Las aventuras de la señora Quinatela”
(The Adventures of Mrs. Quinatela)
Date: from 7 October 2021 to 31 March 2022 (extended)
Venue: second floor, Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa
“Pesebre napolitano del siglo XXI”
Date: from December 12, 2021 to February 2, 2022
Venue: sala "Espai Zero"
Organized by: Josep Massagué and Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil
Additional information: press release (Catalan)
"De fils i porcellanes"
By artist Mia Llauder
Date: from 13 June 2021 to 9 January 2022
Venue: room of the "procès tèxtil"
Additional information: hoja de sala (Spanish)
“Tributo a la bata”
Photographic exhibition of the artist Lucía Herrero
Date: from September 12 to November 19, 2021
Venue: "Espai Zero"
Additional information: press release (Spanish) / Festival Emotiva 2021 (Spanish)
“Petits retalls del Tèxtil”
(Small cuts from the Textil)
“CALIBRACIONES_en la encrucijada entre texto/textil, imagen y sonido en tiempos de pandemia”
By artist Irene Pérez
From April 11 to July 25, 2021. Espai Zero
Additional information: press release
“Decòrum. Vestir la casa para la ocasión”
Date: until May 9, 2021
Venue: First floor, Museu Tèxtil, Terrassa
Additional information:
"El Modernisme i les flors. De la natura a l’arquitectura"
Date: February 7 to May 9, 2021
Venue: Second floor (Museu Tèxtil)
Additional information: Triptych / Press release
"L'atracció del blanc, la seducció de la fibra"
Date: January 24 to April 4, 2021
Venue: “Espai Zero” (Museu Tèxtil)
Additional information: Press release
“Petitona meva”
Date: From 26 January to 19 April 2020.
Venue: "Espai Zero" del Museu Tèxtil.
Additional information: Press release
“La sombra de la ley”
Date: From 23 January to 19 April 2020.
Venue: Second floor, Museu Tèxtil, Terrassa.
2nd edition of the exhibition
“Un pesebre napolitano del siglo XXI”
Date:
From 12 December 2019 to 19 January 2020.
Venue:
"Espai Zero" (Museu Tèxtil).
Additional information: Press release
“Vestits de pel·lícula”
(Movie dresses)
Date:
From 28th April 2019 to 5 January 2020.
Venue:
Second floor, Museu Tèxtil. Terrassa.
Organized by:
Museu Tèxtil.
Additional information:
“C-1313” by Olga Olivera-Tabeni
Date:
From 15th September to 28th November 2019.
Venue:
"Espai Zero" (Museu Tèxtil).
Additional information:
“1939. L’abans i el després”.
Date:
From 2 July to 29th September 2019.
Venue:
Sala del procés tèxtil (Museu Tèxtil).
Additional information:
Press release
“Toda una vida es mucho tiempo” by Anne Moreno
Date:
From May 18th, 2019 to July 21th, 2019.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Anne Moreno.
Additional information:
Press release
Exhibition catalogue (pdf)
“Retalls d'ahir i d'avui”
(Samples from yesterday and today).
This display, organized in three parts (All around the world, Modernisme, Fashion,) offers a taste of the wealth and range of the CDMT’s stocks: on the one hand, the centre’s “historical archive”, comprising pieces from private collections, and on the other the acquisitions of the last twenty years which offer fascinating insights into the development of the Catalan industrial heritage, with special emphasis on the modernista period.
- For more information: auladidactica@cdmt.cat or 937 315 202.
- Access to the texts: [link]
“Fragment de Cal·ligrafia d'una Pomera” by Rosa Rodríguez
Date:
From January 27th, 2019 to April 28th, 2019.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Rosa Rodríguez and Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Additional information:
Press release
Exhibition catalogue (pdf)
“Mag Lari, la màgia de la indumentària”
Date:
From 17th June 2018 to 24th February 2019.
Venue:
Second floor, CDMT.
Organized by:
Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Additional information:
Press release
“Un pessebre napolità del segle XXI” de Josep Massagué
Date:
From December 20, 2018 to January 20, 2019.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Josep Massagué and Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Additional information:
Press release
“Marques d'aigua” de Francesca Piñol
Date:
From 20th September to 16th Decembre 2018.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Francesca Piñol.
Additional information:
Press release
“De la puresa al desig”
Date:
From 22th April to 22th July 2018.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Gremi Artesà Tèxtil de Catalunya with the collaboration of the Consorci de Comerç, Artesania i Moda de Catalunya and the Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Additional information:
Press release
Digital publication
“Genealogies. Identitats tèxtils”
Date:
From 28th January to 25th March 2018.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Eulàlia Grau Costa, Laia Moretó i Joan Miquel Porquer. Facultat de Belles Arts (Universitat de Barcelona).
Other participants:
Violeta Cabeza, Irene Cases, Eduard Claver (amb la col·laboració de Gemma Claver), Aina Crespí, Clara Daroca, Glòria Domínguez (Cintesdecolors), Valentina Ferrari, Helena Freiría, Eulàlia Grau, Mertxe Hernández, Sara Marín, Laia Moretó, Juancho Pacheco, Francesca Piñol, Joan Miquel Porquer, Ferran Recio, Teresa Riba, Iman Severa, Teresa Valverde, (i les performance de Clara Garcia, David Montosa, Clàudia Niubó, Bernat Organista i Amanda Tirado).
Additional information:
Files
defilo “atmosfera” de Filomena Menacho
Date:
From September 21st, 2017 to January 28th, 2018.
Venue:
Second floor, CDMT.
Organized by:
Filomena Menacho.
Additional information:
[pdf format]
“Vestint els meus somnis” d’Assumpció Espada
Date:
From November 19th to January 14th, 2018.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Assumpció Espada.
“Itineraris’17, tres mirades des del tèxtil”
Date:
From September 17th to October 29th, 2017.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Kima Guitart, Silvia Japkin and Dolors Puigdemont.
Additional information: [pdf format]
“VISIONS D'EGIPTE:
OXIRRINC AHIR I AVUI”
Date:
11 June to 23 July 2017.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Equip Arqueològic d’Oxirrinc
Societat Catalana d’Egiptologia
Additional information:
[pdf format]
TEJIDOS DEL VALLE DEL NILO.
Tejidos coptos de Montserrat y del CDMT
Date:
2 March to 23 July 2017.
Venue:
Second floor, CDMT.
Organized by:
Abadia de Montserrat and CDMT.
Additional information:
[pdf format]
CONEXIONES VINCULARES
de ANA JOSE ROSSI.
Date:
2 April to 1 June 2017.
Venue:
"Espai Zero", CDMT.
Organized by:
Ana José Rossi.
Additional information:
[pdf format]
TEIXITS ARTÍSTICHS, RETRATS SINGULARS
Date:
20 october to 22 january 2017.
Venue:
Second floor, CDMT.
Organized by:
CDMT.
- Additional information: Press release / Datatèxtil Articles
NEW UNIVERSE:
discovering other possibilities.
Date: 25 september to 23 december 2016.
Venue: “Espai Zero”, CDMT.
Organized by: Irene Pérez Gil.
TOT PLEGAT.
A portrait in textiles of modern Catalonia.
Date: 17 January to 10 July 2016.
Venue: Second floor, CDMT.
Organized by: Circuit de Museus Tèxtils i de Moda a Catalunya.
INTIMÍSSIMS.
La ropa interior modernista.
Date: 28 April to 3 July 2016.
Venue: “Espai Zero”, CDMT
Organized by: Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
ESFILAGARSATS.
Date: 14 January to 16 March 2016.
Venue: "Espai Zero" del Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Organized by: Katy Pastor Mora.
CIUTAT FABRIL.
Date: 3 November to 2015 at 11 January 2016.
Venue: "Espai Zero" del Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Organized by: CDMT - CDSM.
- For more information: [format pdf]
DRESSING THE CAR.
Textiles that move with you.
Date: Del 14 de juny al 20 de desembre de 2015.
Venue: Second floor, CDMT
Organized by: Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
HAND-EMBROIDERED TABLECLOTHS
CALASANZ MARTÍ
Date: 20 September to 25 October 2015
Venue: "Espai Zero" del Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Organized by: Família Calasanz Martí.
PULLING THE THREAD
Date: 15 May to 19 July 2015.
Venue: "Espai Zero" del Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Organized by: Teresa Jordà Vitó.
"Personnel I" de Teresa Puig
Date: 14 December 2014 to 19 April 2015.
Venue: "Espai Zero" del Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Organized by: Teresa Puig.
MOROCCO, DESERT COLOURS
Contemporary textiles of the Aït Khebbach
Date: 16 November 2014 to 15 March 2015.
Venue: Second floor Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil.
Organized by: Musée Bargoin (Clermont Ferrand) i Ethnistory.
AMPARO SARD. The birth of tragedy
Data: 28 September to 16 November 2014.
Venue: Exhibition hall, ground floor, CDMT.
Organized by: Amparo Sard.
COLLAGE OF MEMORIES
Date: 13 March to 18 May 2014.
Venue: Ground floor, CDMT.
Organized by: CDMT, in collaboration with the artist Irene Pérez and Mútua de Terrassa University Hospital.
INSPIRATIONS FROM MODERNISME
Date: May to July 2014.
Venue: Second floor, CDMT.
Organized by: CDMT and the Escola de la Dona of the Barcelona Provincial Council.
A SECOND LIFE FOR CLOTHES
Date: April to June 2014.
Venue: Second floor, CDMT.
Organized by: CDMT and the Historical Archive and Centre for Historical Studies of Terrassa, in collaboration with the Consortium for Waste Management of Vallès Occidental.
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COLORS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
Natural dyes for a sustainable textile?
Date: 21 December 2010/ December 2012.
Venue: First floor Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
Organized by: Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
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30 YEARS OF CHILDREN FASHION
Through the trajectory of Vidiestil company
Date: 25 May until the 25 November 2012.
Venue: Second floor Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
Organized by: Joan Enric Vidiella with the collaboration of the CDMT.
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“DESPULLA’T!” – UNDRESS!
A dialogue between our bodies and our clothes
Date: 16 December 2008/ December 2011.
Venue: Second floor Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
Organized by: Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
BACK TO HERITAGE STRAIGHT TO FUTURE
The Texmedin Design Challenge
Date 1: 1 to 15 September: Textile Museum and Documentation Centre (second floor).
Date 2: 20 to 24 September: Feria Habitat Valencia (Salón Nude, pabellón 6 bis).
Organized by: Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
"SARGIR L'ÀNIMA" Teresa Matas al CDMT
Date: From 13 May until 24 July of 2010.
Venue: First floor Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
Organized by: Teresa Matas / Department of Culture of the Government of the Balearic Islands / Institute of Balearic Studies.
A LIFE IN BATIK
From the Sultan’s palace to the villages of Java
Date: 1 December 2009/ 28 february 2010.
Venue: First floor Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
Organized by: Co-production of the Textile Museum and Documentation Centre, the Premià de Mar Print Museum and the Arenys de Mar Lace Museum.
THE MODERNIST STYLE HERBARIUM
Date: 14 December 2006 to 30 June 2009.
Venue: First CDMT floor.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
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ART AND NATURE IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Works by Edith Schaar
Date: From 2 to 30 November to 2008.
Venue: Third CDMT floor.
Organized by: Edith Schaar.
“SUAVE-3″
Biennial international exhibition of textile complements
Date: From 9 October to 9 November to 2008.
Venue: Second floor Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
Organized by: Asociación de Creadores Textiles de Madrid.
“TRAU-BOTÓ” (Buttons and button-holes), a diferent view of things
Date: From 9 setember to 26 October to 2008.
Venue: Third CDMT floor.
Organized by: Victòria Ibars.
XAVIER GOSÉ (1876-1915)
From the Barcelona of Els Quatre Gats to the Paris of La vie élégante
Date: 29 April to 28 September 2008.
Venue: Second CDMT floor.
Organized by: Provincial Council of Barcelona and the City Council of Lleida.
- For more information: [format pdf]
“CHOCOLATE”
Travelling exhibition organized by the group Rastres (Traces), in the form of a bar of chocolate
Date: From 17 May to 31 August to 2008.
Venue: Third CDMT floor.
Organized by: Group Rastres
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LA MÉTISSE
Date: 13 April 2008 to 9 May 2008.
Venue: Small Exhibition Hall.
Organized by: Fatima Leveque.
THE SUN AND THE SPIRITS
Date: 06-11-2007 / 03-02-2008.
Venue: Second floor of CDMT.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE PRINTS BY ZULU WOMEN
Date: from 30 October 2007 to 31 December 2007.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Gem Melville.
WOOL, THE INTELLIGENT FABRIC
Date: 25 November 2003 to 30 September 2007.
Venue: Second CDMT floor.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
THE JEWELLERY LABORATORY, 1940 – 1990
Date: 15 May to 02 September 2007.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: The Textile and Clothing Museum of Barcelona.
TEXTILE ESSENCES
Products sample of the Gremi Artesà Tèxtil
Date: 25 February to 29 April 2007.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: The Textile Crafts Guild of Catalonia.
“NUSOS-NUDOS” (KNOTS)
Date: from 7 November 2006 to 31 January 2007.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Ester Chacón.
“DE NATURA:” Je porte un jardin
Date: from 27 September to 29 October 2006.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Carole Simard-Laflamme.
PAU RODON, an avant garde creator of art nouveau
Date: 03 March to 20 October 2006.
Venue: 1st floor CDMT (Espai Modernisme).
Organized by: Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
“UN TEL DE TUL” – THE VEIL OF TULLE
Date: 11-05-2006 / 24-09-2006.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Gustavo Puente Foundation.
ON THE MAP
Date: 09 february 2005 to 30 april 2006.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Textile Museum and Documentation Centre / International Feltmakers Association.
MARIETA, A SMALL TEXTILE BUSINESS
Date: 19 May 2005 to 22 January 2006.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
“MODERNÍSSIMS !!!”
Date: 29 April 2005 to 15 January 2006.
Venue: 1st floor CDMT (Espai modernisme).
Organized by: Textile Museum and Documentation Centre.
THE “TELAR DE TIRO” OF ARAGON
Date: 10-03-2005 / 30-04-2005.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Taller Textil de Triste.
MIRRORS OF THE EAST
Date: 29-04-2004 / 11-04-2005.
Venue: First floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum (Espai modernisme).
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
TISUFU
Date: 20-01-2005 / 28-02-2005.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Agnès Ossourd.
THE QUEENS OF SHEBA
Traditional clothes of Yemen
Date: 01-01-2004 / 31-12-2004.
Venue: Third floor of Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Catalogue of exhibition - UNAVAILABLE
JOSEP PALAU OLLER, FROM MODERNISM TO ART DÉCO
Date: 05-06-2003 / 04-04-2004.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum (Espai modernisme).
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
THE EXPLOSION OF TEXTILE ART
Date:12 -12-2002 / 11-04-2004.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum (Espai modernisme).
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
CROMÀTIKA
Date: From thr 2nd october 2003 to the 15th febrery 2004.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Made and produced by Maria de la P.
WORKS AT THE MUSEUM
Date: 12 -12-2002 / 13-04-2003.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
INTERIORS OF 1900
Photographs by Adolf Mas
Date: 12-12-2002 / 31-05-2003.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum (Espai modernisme).
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
“RASTRES” – TRACES
Date: 12-12-2002 / 30-09-2003.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum
Organized by: Sample of the last creative tendencies in contemporary art, carried out by several tie artists to the FAD.
LA COLÒNIA GÜELL. FABRICS OF LIGHT
Date: 29-04-2003 / 30-09-2003.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Agència de Promoció Turística de la Diputació de Barcelona.
FACTORIES AND DREAMS
Date: 03-07-2001 / 10-04-2002.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
“TEIXITS” – TERESA LANCETA
Date: from 5 October 2000 to 10 Jannuary 2001.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum, Museo de Teruel and Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo.
- Catalogue of exhibition - UNAVAILABLE
THE NOMADIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
Date: from 24 January to 27 May 2001.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
- Catalogue of exhibition - UNAVAILABLE
TEXTILE ART FROM KOREA: Heiyoung Ahn
Date: 2 December 1999 to 2 January 2000.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Heiyoung Ahn and Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Catalogue of exhibition- NO
FIREWORKS 2000
Date: 4 – 18 January 2000.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum
Organized by: Madeira Garne and Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
“ENTRE FILS I LLIGAMS”
Date: 27 January – 25 March 2000.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
LOOK AT ME
Date: 15 April – 28 May 2000.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: The British Council.
“EGIPTE, ENTRE EL SOL I LA MITJA LLUNA”
(Egypt, between the sun and the half-moon)
Date: to May 16st from July 23th 2000.
Venue: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum and Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
- Catalogue of exhibition - UNAVAILABLE
“TINTS PRECIOSOS DEL MEDITERRANI”
(Precious dyes from the Mediterranean)
“TINTS PRECIOSOS DEL MEDITERRANI”
(Precious dyes from the Mediterranean)
- Catalogue of exhibition- UNAVAILABLE
DE LIN E DE LAN
Date: 22 July to 17 October 1999.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Museu dera Val d’Aran and Fundació La Caixa.
“EGIPTE, ENTRE EL SOL I LA MITJA LLUNA”
(Egypt, between the sun and the half-moon)
Date: 27 August to 31 October.
Venue: Sala d’exposicions Fundació Caixa Manresa.
Organized by: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
- Catalogue of exhibition - UNAVAILABLE
Shelly Goldsmith: DEW POINT
Date: 28 October to 28 November.
Venue: Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
Organized by: Shelly Goldsmith and Center of Documentation and Textile Museum.
