LWL - Textile Museum Bocholt Weaving Factory

The TextilWerk Bocholt is one of the eight locations of the LWL Industrial Museum. It is located at two locations to the left and right of the Aa River in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia.

In 1989, the weaving mill, a fully functional museum factory, was opened. The museum documents the work processes in a typical textile factory from the period between 1900 and 1960.The heart of the museum is a collection of more than 30 looms of different designs from 100 years of development history. The main part is the production hall with the typical lean-to roofs of historic textile factories. In addition, the museum complex includes the boiler room, the machine room, the workshop, the office, the warehouse, the gate/gatehouse, the coachhouse, the railway track with steam storage locomotive as well as the workers' house with typical equipment of the time and the self-sufficiency garden with small animal husbandry. In 2018, the permanent exhibition in the weaving mill was redesigned.

The manufactured products can be purchased in the museum shop, for example so-called "pit rags", embossed napkins and half-linen tea towels with traditional patterns.

In 2004, the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe bought the four-storey brick building of the Herding spinning mill to make it the second part of its textile museum. In 2009, the renovation began with funds from Economic Recovery Plan II. Since the opening of the spinning mill in September 2011, the textile museum with its two locations has been operating under the name "TextilWerk Bocholt". In October 2016, the new exhibition space "Makers and Spinnerei" opened its doors. On two levels, the LWL Industrial Museum presents the history and work of Westphalian textile entrepreneurs. The range of exhibitions ranges from fountain pens to furniture and paintings, fashion from different decades and functional machines. On the ground floor of the spinning mill there is a "Fashion Trail": in a 23-metre-long shop window, which has been converted into a catwalk, historic clothing and shoes as well as textile sample books take visitors on a colourful journey through more than 100 years of fashion trends.

Temporary exhibitions on the history of fashion and the textile industry are regularly organised. The special offers are aimed at school classes, groups of children and families. The "Schiffchen" restaurant with beer garden on the Aa and the "Skylounge" glass on the roof of the spinning mill are affiliated.

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