Opening hours
State Textile and Industry Museum (tim)
Tuesday to Sunday: 9am – 6pm
Monday: closed
Telephone (0821) 81001-50
Open: Epiphany (6.1.), Good Friday, Easter Monday,
Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest (8.8.), Assumption Day (15.8.), Day of German Unity (3.10.), All Saints‘ Day (1.11.), Boxing Day (26.12.)
Closed: New Years Day (1.1.), Shrove Tuesday, Labour Day (1.5.), Christmas Eve (24.12.), Christmas Day (25.12.), New Years Eve (31.12.)
Please note: photography is not permitted in the museum due to copyright infringement. Thank you for your consideration.
nunó — Restaurant in the tim
Tuesday to Sunday: 10am – 5pm
Monday: closed
Telephone (0821) 508 10 44
Admission Prices
Permanent Exhibition
Regular admission: 5 Euro
Discounted admission: 4 Euro
Sunday admission: 1 Euro
(does not apply to special exhibitions)
Machine Demonstration Permanent Exhibition
Several times per day: 1.50 Euro
Limited participants, booking not possible
Combined ticket permanent and special exhibition
Regular: 9 euros
Reduced: 7 euros
all visitors on Sundays who are not already entitled to free admission; the discounted price is €1; further discounts do not apply.
Basic military service and civilian service personnel with identification
Participants engaging in voluntary service in the social or environmental sector
Severely disabled persons
Persons over 65 years of age with identification
School pupils with identification, if not already subject to free admission
Students with identification, if not already subject to free admission
Members of the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker e.V.
District and city cultural heritage guardians
Members of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler in Bayern
Members of the Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler in ver.di Bayern
Holders of a cultural pass from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpenländer and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpen-Adria if the museum index is specifically stipulated in the cultural pass
Holders of a Bavarian voluntary service card
Holders of a Bavarian gold voluntary service card
Children and teens under 18 years of age
School classes, preschool children, childcare and youth groups from EU member states, provided they are accompanied by teaching staff or official supervisors
Teaching staff and official supervisors accompanying their groups on a museum visit or attending the museum in order to prepare such a visit
Persons who conduct tours for Bavarian community education institutions and tourist guides with professional identification attending the museum in order to prepare such tours
Members of the Bavarian State Parliament
Recipients of the Bavarian Order of Service, the Bavarian Rescue Medal and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (with an accompanying person) upon presentation of the respective identification; these visitors also receive free entry to special exhibitions
Members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) with membership card
Journalists with a press pass
Members of the Förder- und Freundeskreis tim e.V.
Members of the society „Freunde des MPZ e.V.“ in the case of visits to events put on by the society in the individual museums and exhibitions
Students of art, art history and art studies at universities and other tertiary institutions with identification
Tertiary teaching staff when visiting the museum as part of courses accompanying their students and when attending the museum for the purposes of preparing such a visit
Diplomatic personnel with accreditation in the Federal Republic of Germany upon presentation of diplomatic identification
Directors of consular missions with accreditation in the Free State of Bavaria upon presentation of consular or honorary consular identification
Chaperones of severely disabled persons, provided the necessity of such a chaperone is registered in the disability pass
Booking Service
Tues. – Thurs. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Fri. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Telephone (0821) 81001-50
Barrier-free Access
Booking Service for Guided Tours
Museum Entrance
Provinostraße 46
Parking
2 disabled parking spaces on the museum site
Elevators
Two passenger and one freight elevator are available. The elevators allow access to all exhibition levels on the ground and upper floors as well as to the toilets in the basement.
Toilets
A disabled access toilet is available.
Museum chaperone – Service for groups with constraints
Helpers from the Augsburg Voluntary Centre accompany Augsburg groups from the centre through the museum. Contact details can be provided upon request.
Information available from:
info@timbayern.de or
Telephone (0821) 81001-50
Guided Tours
Booking Service for Guided Tours
Tues. – Thurs. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Fri. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Telephone (0821) 81001-50
Guided tours are available in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
From Fibre to Fashion – the tour through the tim
How is modern clothing created? The process stretches from the raw material, spinning, weaving or knitting, through to textile refinement and manufacturing. Exciting insights into the fashion of the last 200 years await you. In the exhibition weaving mill, you can watch as tim products are created, for example the Fugger-Fustian. The highlight of the tour is the world famous cloth pattern collection of the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK – New Augsburg Calico Factory), uniquely and interactively presented on three graces over four metres in height.
This tour can also be booked with the following focus points:
- Patterns
- Fashion
- Industrialisation
Up to 25 participants (with 26 or more participants, the group will be split)
Duration: approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
Workshops are available on the topics of printing, felting and paper dress
Gastronomy
tim – a museum to enjoy
At nunó, a delicious breakfast selection, special daily deli menu offers, snacks and cakes await you every day.
Enjoy a modern, uncomplicated gastronomic culture in a relaxed atmosphere – with fresh salad, a range of vegetarian meals and the finest meat from Bioland.
On Sundays, indulge in nunó’s extravagant breakfast buffet with organic sausage, organic eggs, sweet treats, fruit and muesli. Eat as much as you want, including organic “Weißwurst” and warm snacks.
The cuisine at nunó: freshly prepared with seasonal ingredients from the region, meat exclusively from Bioland, quality wines, juices and lemonades.
nunó is open:
Tuesday to Sunday: 10am – 5pm
Monday: closed
Telephone (0821) 508 10 44
www.nuno-augsburg.de
Permanent Exhibition
Booking Centre for Guided Tours
Tues. – Thurs. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Fri. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Telephone (0821) 81001-50
Guided tours are available in German, English, French and Italian.
The tim is a museum in which visitors can experience history.
Man
The spotlight is on people whose lives were radically changed by the industrial age. Visitors can learn about the turbulent history of workers, influential entrepreneurs and bankers.
Machine
The museum factory of the tim is housed in the historic saw-tooth roofed buildings of the AKS. Here, historic weaving looms clatter alongside modern high-tech machines, producing the tim locksmith´s towel and the Fugger-Fustian, for example.
Pattern
The centre of the permanent exhibition is home to a national cultural treasure: the unique collection of pattern books from the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK – New Augsburg Calico Factory). It reflects more than 200 years of design and fashion made in Augsburg. The renowned Studio Brückner has created a presentation of these cloth patterns dating from the 1780s to the 1990s. Graces over four metres in height serve as interactive projection screens for visitors, impressively translating the digitalised cloth patterns into the third dimension.
Fashion
The tim offers spacious showcases for fashion ranging from Biedermeier to Strenesse clothing. The tim offers an exciting foray into the realm of fashion and costume history stretching back 200 years.
The tim focuses not only on the past, however, but also shows the exciting developments emerging in the textile world of today and tomorrow. The high-tech section revolves around entirely new areas of application. From intelligent clothing, artificial muscle through to carbon products, the tim demonstrates the opportunities of the future of textiles in Bavaria.
tim online
Discover treasures from the tim online
Selected collection highlights of tim are now digitally available via the internet portal bavarikon.de. There, the Free State of Bavaria presents art, cultural and knowledge treasures from institutions throughout the country.
The first of these is the heart of tim’s museum collection: the fabric pattern book archive of the former „Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK)“, which is unique worldwide. Interested visitors can browse through the first 63 of a total of 555 pattern books online. The high-quality digital representations of the individual book pages impressively show the whole variety of fashion and design „made in Augsburg“ from the 1783 to 1858. The pattern books of about the first 100 years go back to „Schöppler & Hartmann“, the predecessor company of NAK.
The history of the Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik goes back to the late 18th century. It was considered one of the most important calico printers in Europe and delivered its goods all over the world.
After an eventful history, NAK filed for bankruptcy in 1996. What has been preserved is the extensive pattern book collection with about 1.3 million fabric printing samples. The archive is housed in the tim and is now part of the Cultural Property of National Significance of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Have fun discovering!
Circle of Friends
The Förder-und Freundeskreis tim e.V.
The wheel was set in motion just in time in 1996 by the members of circle of friends then called the Verein zur Förderung eines Industriemuseums in Augsburg e.V. (Association for the Support of an Industry Museum in Augsburg). It was the period of the wave of closures in the large textile factories, in which just years earlier thousands of workers had earned their living. The association´s intention was to preserve the heritage of the textile industry, which had once been such an important branch of industry for Augsburg, for generations to come.
They began to collect textile machines from the bankruptcy assets of the large factories, thus securing the “initial capital” for the State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg (tim), the establishment of which they were able to achieve on the political level. The textile machines were transferred to the collection of the tim and were carefully restored through years of work by members of the society.
Thanks to the know-how of the former textile workers, the machines are once again running in the vibrant permanent exhibition of the tim. They not only document the technological history of their branch, but also provide visitors with insight into the daily professional lives of the textile workers. One component of the “initial capital” for the tim is the creative treasury of the former Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik (NAK – New Augsburg Calico Factory), which was originally intended to be shipped out to the far east.
The treasury consists of more than 550 pattern sample books of the NAK, in which around 1.3 million material patterns of the NAK and its competitors dating from the 1780s to the 1990s were collected. Thanks to the association and the financial support of the the Free State of Bavaria, the City of Augsburg and the Stadtsparkasse Augsburg, the pattern book archive was able to be preserved in its entirety and secured for Augsburg, and is now considered national cultural heritage. But the tim has the members of the society to thank for more than just the preservation of an outstanding collection item: in late 2001, a small museum team began the work which was to lead to the tim. In the years that followed, the challenge was not only to develop a vibrant museum concept, but also to carry out the preliminary political work required. Numerous events in the lead-up to the opening of the museum would have been inconceivable without the members of the society.
With the completion of the development phase and the opening of the State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg (tim) in 2010, the work of the society took a new direction, hence a new name: the Förderverein became the Förder- und Freundeskreis tim e.V. (Supporters and Friends of the tim). The members now run the museum shop, for example, or help as tour guides for the exhibition, hemming towels and helping wherever they are needed. A great and shining example of volunteer work! The tim says THANK YOU!