The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's Improvement Committee has approved a proposal to set up a textile museum, that would showcase the history of the city's textile mills, in central Mumbai.
The committee, in its meeting yesterday, gave its nod for the museum which is likely to come up on the premises of the defunct India United Mills in Lower Parel in the next two years.
According to the proposal, the museum would spread across 61,000 sq metres, and will have a gallery showcasing traditional textiles and fabrics worn in erstwhile Bombay from the British era.
It will also showcase the process of cotton spinning, cloth making and the use of various machineries and looms.
The museum will have a section devoted to the social life of the mill workers who lived a colourful life and added texture to the city's culture. It will also highlight the chawl culture, the celebration of Ganesh Chathurthi at the mass level as all of them had roots in the city's mill life, the proposal said.
The estimated capital cost of the project is Rs128-crore with the central government contributing Rs20 crore, it said.
The BMC has made a budgetary allocation of Rs10 crore for 2010-11 for the museum.
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