Calico Museum Of Textiles

The textile industry is large in Gujarat and the Calico Museum depicts the importance of this industry. The Calico Museum of Textiles, widely regarded as one of the finest textile museums in the world was constructed in 1949. The museum has five centuries of the finest fabrics spun, woven, printed and painted in different parts of India. It also has a collection of marble, sandstone and bronze icons and busts split in two thematic section - galleries for religious textiles and historical textiles.