Abegg Civic Silk Museum, Garlate

The Abegg Silk Museum located in an eighteenth-century silk mill, on the shore of Lake Garlate, surrounded by a mulberry garden, exhibits discoveries, inventions, and machines for silk production from the silkworm to the fabric. It was created and inaugurated in 1953 by the Swiss industrialists Abegg to pass on to industry workers and scholars the tools created over the centuries in the silk industry. An activity that had and still has great importance in the East as well as in the West. Donated in 1976 to the Municipality of Garlate, it preserves a rich collection of machinery, displayed in a way that allows observing the main production phases: silkworm breeding, cocoon reeling, silk twisting. It also has a space dedicated to weaving. The route concludes with a section dedicated to the future, where new research and applications of silk in the biomedical field, cosmetics, and the production of new yarns are presented.

The Museum has dedicated interactive laboratories and various educational paths animated by expert trainers.