The aim of the Museum of Technology and the Textile Industry, established in 1979, was to collect artefacts linked to the wool industry in the Bielsko-Biała region. It is these items which constitute the greatest number of exhibits in the Old Factory’s collections. They include all manner of machinery and tools used in spinning, weaving, cloth-making and millinery. These are supplemented by laboratory equipment, blocks and rollers used in printing fabrics, brochures, letterhead paper and a rich collection of fabric samples from local factories. The museum’s collections quickly expanded to include items used in other areas of technology. However, it has now ceased collecting and displaying such items, focusing more on documenting the history of industry in the region. Included in the discontinued and no longer expanded collections are knitting machines, domestic appliances such as irons, over one hundred radio sets, numerous television sets, gramophones and tape recorders, gramophone records, sewing machines, typewriters, calculating machines, as well as sports - mainly skiing - equipment. There is also some firefighting equipment and a collection of electrical goods donated by a private individual, including antique lightbulb fittings, fuses, isolators, sockets, switches and lightbulbs. The museum also has a specialist library. Its collections include publications relating to textile technology of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as The Annual of Polish Trade and Industry from 1934 and 1938. Library visits can be made by prior appointment.