The textile Museum is a branch of the National Polytechnic Museum, which is located in Sliven, in a building that itself is a monument of culture.

The production of the textile industry – that is what thematically devoted entirely to the Museum. Being unique in its kind in Bulgaria, it covers an impressive amount of time – from ancient times to the present. The exposition is located in eight halls and in turn tells visitors of the Museum about emergence, development and achievements of technology, mechanical engineering and textile engineering. Explore the Museum begin not from the first but from the second floor because all the big and large-scale equipment and mills are on the ground floor.

According to the chronology, in the halls of the Museum shows the factory manual and textiles, Dating from the Neolithic era until the end of the nineteenth century, and then also from the XIX century until the 1970-ies.

In the textile Museum presents the cargo, fixed on a vertical mill, which dates back to VII century BC. Here special emphasis on the reconstruction of the vertical weaving mill, which was used by the Bulgarian masters in the Neolithic period. In addition, demonstrated equipment, devices and technology that was widely used in handicraft, home and manufacturing industries: spindle and spinning wheel, primitive weaving forms, samapatti and spinning wheels, and much more.

A special place in the Museum devoted to the history of the European industrial revolution 1733, John Kay invented the mill together with the "flying Shuttle". Another invention that marked the beginning of the revolutionary technologies and techniques, belongs to the Frenchman the Joseph Jacquard, who in 1800 was used to weaving going program. She got the name "Jacquard" and with it, each strand of the mill was controlled independently. In the Sliven Museum has one of these jacquard mills working still. It allows you to verify the enormity of the importance of this machine for weaving skill.

Another room is designed to acquaint visitors with tenarisdalmine crafts – from silk to braids, punching and weaving.

Specially prepared exhibition devoted to the history of life Dobri Zhelyazkova, who is considered the founder of modern textile production in Bulgaria.