Radical extension and renovation of the Textile Museum in Tilburg. In addition, the museum, the museum grounds, and the surrounding neighbourhood now display more interaction in both spatial and social terms. The museum is housed in the former Mommers & Co woollen fabric factory, and has recently merged with the Tilburg Regional Archives. The complex has been extended with a new entrance building and an archives storage department with corresponding reading rooms. As a component of the revised routing, transparent glass corridors connect the various museum sections. A part of the existing building has been renovated. An abstract glass building with a remarkable steel construction that has been left fully visible has been strategically placed as a new entrance. The transparency of the building radiates accessibility and enhances the recognizability of the museum and its entrance. Inside, a separate volume that seems almost to be freely suspended in space provides rooms for meetings, educational programmes and for hire. The top floor of the volume forms a platform from which one has a wide panorama of the Mommers complex. The archives storage section consists of an entirely closed concrete volume that rests like a treasure chest on a steel frame above an existing exhibition building. The archives have an exterior cladding of PVC textile that is wrapped around the volume like a raincoat. The offices, the museum shop, the foyer, and the exhibition areas in the existing building have been completely renovated. Both the extension and the renovation make use of various textile applications that underline the identity of the user. The modern implementation of the new construction stands in stark contrast to the historical qualities of the original complex, so that both segments gain in allure and really come into their own.