CIVICO MUSEO DELLA SETA ABEGG

The Abegg Silk Museum located in an 18th-century spinning mill on the shore of Lake Garlate, surrounded by a mulberry tree garden, exhibits discoveries, inventions and machines for the production of silk from the silkworm to the fabric. It was built and inaugurated in 1953 by the Swiss industrialists Abegg to hand down the tools created over the centuries in the silk industry to workers and scholars. An activity that had and still has great importance in the East as in the West. Donated in 1976 to the municipality of Garlate, it preserves a rich collection of machinery, displayed in such a way that the main production phases can be observed: silkworm breeding, cocoon reeling, silk twisting. It also has an area dedicated to weaving. The tour ends with a sector dedicated to the future where new research and applications of silk in the biomedical field, in cosmetics, in the production of new yarns are presented. The Museum has dedicated interactive workshops and various educational paths led by expert trainers.