Collections

The Röhsska Museum has an extensive collection of about 50 000 artefacts, spanning craft, design and fashion. The collection is divided into various smaller collections, inter alia furniture, metal, industrial design, textile, costume, sketches, prints and illustrations, glass, ceramics, book bindings and the East Asian collection. The museum also holds other kinds of collections with specific items, like the Japanese woodblock print collection or the Falk Simon donation which holds an impressive collection of gold and silver artefacts. Here is an introduction to some of our collections.

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The textiles collection

The textiles collection is the single largest collection at the museum and includes many different kinds of textiles: Coptic tapestries, Chinese silk, lace, Nordic allmoge (folk art) weavings, embroidery, modern textile images, etc.
There are textiles found in Egyptian soil, Chinese silk fabrics, carpets, fine weaving from Bohusland, Nordic rya rugs, knitted garments and samples and pattern drawings from Bohus stickning (1939-1969), textile art from the 1900s and modern printed fabrics. The museum’s textile collection is rich and wide-ranging, though the museum has a restrictive approach to acquiring older textiles and only accepts individual objects of a high quality. As regards contemporary textiles, the museum makes ongoing acquisitions of new idioms.
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