This building services as a textile museum, library and drawing college. The museum owns a…read morecomprehensive textile collection that covers major stylistic and technical developments of textile history. The library houses pattern books from machine embroidery, weaving and textile printing, as well as textile designs, fashion drawings, fashion photographs and literature on textiles and art. For a textile lover, this might be a great place. But, for an entrance fee of 12 CHF, even as a fan of textiles, I think I would still be disappointed. Thankfully, my entrance was free as it was included as part of a free Easter promotion I signed up for via the tourism website. The library is not open to the public, and the remaining museum can be viewed in a matter of minutes and is housed on two floors of the building. We kept thinking we must have missed something, as there just wasn't much there.

We were drawn to this museum because they were one of the museums recommended in one of the…read morebrochures about art in St. Gallen. From the description of the museum, we had high expectations for avant garde art. We love the location and the location's backstory lends itself for a potentially good art platform. Regretfully, we were unmoved by the minuscule collection, and disappointed by the one special exhibition for lack of variety and theme.