History
National Textile Museum located in Building 26 at Lot 50 Public Works Department Section 70, Jalan Sultan Hishammuddin, Kuala Lumpur. The architecture of this building Mughal-Islamic orientation. The museum has streaks of red and white of its own revenue from red bricks and white plaster punctuated with alternate, characterizing the adaptation of the Moghul-Islam style of architecture. Entranceway facing the Jalan Sultan Hishammuddin consists of two rectangular oval shaped pole that stretches out from the walls of the dome-roofed. There are two octagonal-shaped tower on the side of the building. In each tower there is a concrete dome surrounded by smaller domes. In 2008, space was added to the glass lobby of the building and used as the main entrance to the museum.
English architect of A.B. Hubback building design and construction coupled with the Sultan Abdul Samad building in 1896. This building was used as the State Railways Headquarters Federated Malay States in 1905. In 1917, the building was submitted to the NSW government and made of Selangor. This building was subsequently occupied by the Selangor Water Works Department, the Central Bank and the Bank of Agriculture from 1959 to 1980 before being handed over to the Urban Development Authority Holdings Berhad (UDA) in 1981. In 1986, this building has been leased by the Malaysian Handicraft Development Corporation as a showcase for art and craft and made the Textile Museum. From 2001 until 2004, it functioned as the High Court (Appellate and Special Powers) and the Gallery of Justice before access to the construction of the National Textile Museum in October 2007 as a follow-up approval from the Cabinet on July 13, 2005 the Memorandum of the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage-No. 527/2468/2005 on the proposal for the establishment of the National Textile Museum.
Building the National Textile Museum is a 2 ½-storey building with an area of ​​3259m2 of land and floor area 3145.3m2, was gazetted on 13 October 1983 as a historical building in the Government Gazette PU (A) 423, Order of Old Monuments and Sites Historical Land (No. 3), Bendapurba Act 1976. Under the Ninth Malaysia Plan 9 (2006-2010), Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture through the Department of Museums Malaysia conducted the project 'Conservation Work Item Proposal, Filling Exhibition and Interior Design for the National Textile Museum of Kuala Lumpur, from August 2007 until completed by June 2009. The museum was opened to the public on January 9, 2010.