The Educational Silk Museum (photo 2) is situated in the basement of one of the buildings where other institutions are also located: Istituto Industriale Statale “Paolo Carcano” (photo 4), Centro Tessile Serico Spa Consortile for technological update (photo 3) and Stazione Sperimentale per la Seta for research in the silk and textile industries; finally, the seats of Università dell’Insubria and Politecnico di Milano have been based in the area since 1990.

Textile education and training

The increase in literacy and the ever-changing requirements in the silk industry made the creation of a new building for Setificio silk school necessary.
As a consequence, in 1963 “Consorzio per l’erigendo edificio dell’Istituto Tecnico Industriale di Setificio Paolo Carcano” was created; it was a combine of three institutions (i.e. Provincia, Comune and Camera di Commercio) willing to create functional schools to train managers, technicians and workers in the silk industry.
Architects Lorenzo Muzio and Franco Tartaglino Mazzucchelli designed the new School, built between 1970 and 1974.

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Photo 2 – Educational Silk Museum
Photo 3 – Centro Tessile Serico Spa consortile
Photo 4 – Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale “Paolo Carcano”