Barcelona Guide
The northern suburbs
Museu Textil i d'Indumentaria
Address: Palau Reial de Pedralbes, Avinguda Diagonal
Opening time: Tues– Sat 10am–6pm, Sun & hols 10am–3pm
Price: €4.20, valid for all Palau Reial de Pedralbes museums; free first Sun of month
Website: www.museutextil.bcn.cat
The extensive collection of the Museu Textil i d'Indumentaria, a textile and clothing museum, presents selected items from late-Roman fabrics to 1930s cocktail dresses, while demonstrating the art and technique behind cloth-making, embroidery, lace and tapestry work. There are also pieces by Spanish and Catalan designers of the 1970s to the current day, like those of Pedro Rodríguez (1895–1990), the first haute couture designer to establish a studio in Barcelona, and Catalan designer Antonio Miró, who has recently donated pieces to the museum.