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
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Coolness – Staging Fashion in the 20th Century

Cool as a multipurpose word is part of everyday language today. But what or who is actually „cool“? And what is behind the term „coolness“? The new exhibition at tim explores the phenomenon of coolness as a leitmotif of fashion in the 20th century.

People expressed their cool and aloof and often rebellious attitudes especially by wearing appropriate clothing. Film stars such as Marlene Dietrich in a black suit with top hat and cigarette or James Dean in a T-shirt, jeans and leather jacket served as „cool“ role models of their time. Visitors to the exhibition will encounter them and many other exciting icons of contemporary history in around 300 exhibits. These range from the 1910s to the present, including many garments and accessories.

„Cool“ jeans by brands such as Levi’s, Lee and Wrangler, suits by Jean Paul Gaultier and can be seen as well as haute couture dresses by Dior. The authentic leather jacket of the Green politician and former Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and the debut dress of the opera singer Diana Damrau are also part of the exhibition. Not least with the help of photos, film material, literature of the Beat generation and music from jazz to hip-hop, visitors embark on a fascinating journey through time and explore the attitudes and emotions of „coolness“ – then and now.

As part of the exhibition, young people from Augsburg also show what cool clothing means to them today. Equipped with a small budget, they had put together their personal coolness outfits in the run-up to the exhibition during a participatory project.

„Coolness. Staging Fashion in the 20th Century“ is a joint project of the tim and the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) and was developed together with the Industrial Museum Textilwerk Bocholt.

Photo credit James Dean: CMG Worldwide.

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!