In 2009 the reconstruction, the architectural design and the museological programming of the Centre were completed. Its objective was the collection, documentation and exhibit of the tangible and intangible material of the long industrial history of the town and the creation of an exhibition space to function as the town\u2019s landmark and as a live organisation with various educational and cultural events parallel to its exhibitions. In 2012 the project was set in motion with interviews of ex workers, employees, managers and people who contributed with information about the industrial history. The team also started searching for objects so that the collection could be put in place. It was a long process based on research inside the empty factory shells, peoples\u2019 contributions, the present owners of the factories, past industrialists\u2019 descendants, collectors and the citizens of Naoussa. The outcome was a vast collection of machinery, records, tools, final products, personal items, engineer and topographical designs and photographs.<\/p>\n
The exhibition \u201cThreads of History – The textile industry in Naoussa\u201d showcases the textile industrial history of the town embedded in the historical, financial and social context, presenting all its monuments, that is: the factories – ex-businesses and the production procedures, the role and operation of machinery and the way manufacturing was organized. It emphasizes water motion, the basic power used in the preindustrial and industrial era and sheds light into people\u2019s stories, workers and industrialists, employees and employers. The exhibition presents several sides of the industrial history of the town until the Second World War and the recent memories of its people. It therefore interconnects the uncovered meanings which either complement or confront each other as new eras have brought changes in society, customs and work conditions. The exhibition is mostly anthropocentric and it attempts to reconstruct the collective memory, as there is not only one memory but many, as many as all of us, as history is made from many small stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>