In 2025, the Textile Museum Foundation celebrates the first fifty years of the Museum with the exhibition "Silk Treasures. Textile masterpieces from the Falletti donation," curated by Daniela Degl’Innocenti and open to the public from December 20, 2024, to December 21, 2025.

Created thanks to the donation of a collection of ancient textiles by the textile entrepreneur and collector Loriano Bertini to the Tullio Buzzi Institute in Prato, 50 years later the Museum celebrates this milestone with another exceptional donation, that of the collection of the Florentine doctor Giovanni Falletti, an eclectic collector and enthusiast of various disciplines, who in fifty years of passionate research has preserved and collected textile artifacts, embroideries, books, prints, jewelry, historical weapons, and ritual masks from Europe and many Asian and African countries.

This very generous donation, consisting of nearly 2,000 very diverse objects, includes artifacts of incredible historical, artistic, and anthropological value, such as 250 Japanese prints from the second half of the 18th and 19th centuries by artists like Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Utamaro, European fabrics from the 15th to the 18th centuries, over 450 lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and prints from the 16th to the 19th centuries – including Dürer, Van Leyden, Salvator Rosa, Piranesi, Max Klinger, Lorenzo Viani – and more than 1,000 objects including embroideries, ornamental bands, panels, masks, jewelry, ritual weapons from Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, and South America.

"Silk Treasures. Textile masterpieces from the Falletti donation" is the first exhibition composed of works from this substantial collection that has extraordinarily enriched the Museum's heritage. Curated by Daniela Degl’Innocenti, curator of the Textile Museum, with the scientific advice of Roberta Orsi Landini, the leading Italian scholar of textiles and costumes, for the first time the exhibition presents ancient textile artifacts and embroideries that represent the initial core from which Falletti started his collector's journey. Falletti's was a random revelation, born from the sight of a green velvet 15th-century chasuble (liturgical garment) displayed in the showcase of a Florentine antique dealer.