K. A. Almgren silk mill & museum
What's on
New exhibition
Liquid Frames
Liquid Frames opens at K. A. Almgren silk mill & museum during Stockholm Craft Week 2025, which runs from October 1st-5th.
As a Chinese artist in Sweden, Ting Wang lives and creates in a paradox: she tries to melt into Swedish society while at the same time holding on more strongly than ever to her Chinese identity. Identity, as well as craft – being made up from a series of frames; tradition, aesthetics, perceptions and values – are actually liquid. The frames change when she changes; they change when she observes them, touches them and pushes them.
The exhibition will be on until the 31st of October.
News in the museum shop
We have created a collection featuring motifs from the K. A. Almgren silk mill & museum's collections. The collection includes trays, coasters, and bookmarks. The fabrics adorning the collection are sample weaves from the 19th century, created with the intention of showcasing the different color variations in which the fabrics could be produced.
The collection is exclusively available for purchase in our museum shop. Welcome!
Exhibitions
The Factory
In our permanent exhibition on level 3, you can meet some of the women who have worked here and learn more about the silk shawls and everything else they wove or sewed.
Learn about the history of our silk mill. From the start in 1833, before the breakthrough of industrialism in Sweden, through the glory days, the decline, the expansion, the TEKO crisis and the restart.
In the museum store
The sample collection
We have developed a collection with patterns from the K. A. Almgren silk mill & museum collections. The collection consists of trays, coasters and bookmarks. The patterns of the collection were designed during the 19th century and were developed with the idea of showing the different color schemes the fabrics could be produced in.
The collection is available exclusively in our museum shop.
Almgren's Washing Soap
Almgren's Washing Soap is the silk factory's own product, specially developed for efficient and gentle washing of silk. It is also good for washing other natural materials such as wool, linen and cotton as well as leather and suede.
Working life museum of the year 2024
K. A. Almgren silk mill & museum was 2024 awarded "Working life museum of the year 2024", by the Swedish National association for working life museums!
The announcement came as an unexpected, yet massively joyful, surprise for former museum director Anna Hedtjärn Wester and the staff.
- We are all very happy and honoured. The award is especially meaningful to us as the Almgren silk mill embarked on a long-term project aimed at developing the museum a few years ago. We wanted to shed light on women's stories within the textile industry, produce innovating educational activities for schools, and preserve the knowledge in weaving on the Jacquard looms for the future.
